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Release: May 22, 2007

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Product Description CLOSER is director Mike Nichols' critically acclaimed look at four strangers - Julia Roberts, Jude Law, Natalie Portman and Clive Owen - with one thing in common: each other. Amazon.com Four extremely beautiful people do extremely horrible things to one another in Closer, Mike Nichols' pungent adaptation of Patrick Marber's play that easily marks the Oscar-winning director's best work in years. Anna (Julia Roberts) is a photographer who specializes in portraits of strangers; Dan (Jude Law) is an obituary writer struggling to become a novelist; Alice (Natalie Portman) is an American stripper freshly arrived in London after a bad relationship; and Larry (Clive Owen) is a dermatologist who finds love under the most unlikely of circumstances. When their paths cross it's a dizzying supernova of emotions, as Nichols and Marber adroitly construct various scenes out of their lives that pair them again and again in various permutations of passion, heartbreak, anger, sadness, vengeance, pleading, deception, and most importantly, brutal honesty. It's only until you're more than halfway through the movie that you'll have to ask yourself exactly why you are watching such a beautifully tragic tale, as Closer is basically the ickiest, grossest, most dysfunctional parts of all your past relationships strung together into one movie. Ultimately, it falls to the four actors to draw you deeper into the story; all succeed relatively, but it's Law and Owen whose characters will cut you to the quick. Law proves that yet again he's most adept at playing charming, amoral bastards with manipulative streaks, and Owen is nothing short of brilliant as the character most turned on by the energy inherent in destructive relationships--whether he's on the giving or receiving end. --Mark Englehart

Release: December 12, 2023

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Product Description IT’S HARD TO ROCK AND ROLL WHEN YOU’RE KNEE-DEEP IN RUBBER! Julius Caesar MacGruder (Anthony Michael Hall, Sixteen Candles), the outrageous lead singer of ''Hail Caesar'', a rock 'n' roll band, wants it all… fame, fortune, beautiful girls and a recording contract from Easy Street Records (fronted by Robert Downey Jr., The Avengers). There’s only one problem, Julius isn't a rock star… he’s a worker at a pencil eraser factory run by the notorious Mr. Bidwell (Nicholas Pryor, Risky Business). And with his dreams seemingly out of his grasp, he falls in love with the boss's daughter Buffer (Bobbie Phillips, Showgirls) against her father's wishes. In order to curry favor with him, Julius makes a bet with the old man… if he comes up with $100,000 in six months, Mr. Bidwell must let them be together. Can Julius make the money, make it big, AND get the girl? ''The Brat Pack'' meets ''The Avengers'' in Anthony Michael Hall's comedic directorial debut that features an all-star supporting cast that includes Judd Nelson (The Breakfast Club), Samuel L. Jackson (Captain Marvel) and Frank Gorshin (Twelve Monkeys). SPECIAL FEATURES: Original Theatrical Trailer Optional English Subtitles Collectible Mini-Poster Review Samuel L. Jackson, god bless him, throws his all into the masochistic role of a mailman terrorized by Julius' big, mean dog. Jackson appeared in Pulp Fiction the year this came out yet he gives his all to cartoonish canine slapstick... Hail Caesar would like to be [Anthony Michael] Hall's Billy Madison... --Nathan Rabin, NathanRabin.com / Nathan Rabin's Happy Place

Release: February 18, 2025

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A string of violent robberies in the Pacific Northwest leads veteran FBI agent Terry Husk (Jude Law) into a white supremacist plot to overthrow the federal government.

Release: June 2, 2026

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A former investigative journalist goes undercover at a psychedelic wellness center to find her missing sister.