A witty, romantic, and very dangerous love story about chance meetings, instant attractions, and casual betrayals. 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. Adapted by Patrick Marber from his award-winning stage play, Closer "vibrates with eroticism, bruising laughs and dynamic performances. Closer is a triumph!" - Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

Two couples meet, cheat and deceive each other in this witty, romantic and very dangerous love story, masterfully adapted from the award-winning stage play.

The relationships of two couples become complicated and deceitful when the man from one couple meets the woman of the other.

The relationships of two couples become complicated and deceitful when the man from one couple meets the woman of the other.

Patrick Marber's acclaimed stage drama about the romantic interactions of four people has been given a reverent screen adaptation by director and producer Mike Nichols. Dan (Jude Law) is a writer in London who wants to finish a novel, but in the meantime supports himself by writing obituaries. One day he chances upon Alice (Natalie Portman), a beautiful young American expatriate, working as a stripper, when he sees her get hit by a car. Alice immediately falls for Dan, and gives him her love without reservation. Dan is initially enchanted with Alice, and returns her affection, but while she inspires him to write his novel (based on her life), her neediness begins to wear on him. Anna (Julia Roberts) is a photographer who is hired to take a portrait of Dan for the dust jacket of his book; Dan is attracted to her easy confidence, and while the two of them flirt, Anna soon (inadvertently through Dan's playful machinations) meets Larry (Clive Owen), a dermatologist, and marries him. Dan can't get Anna out of his

This Mike Nichols-directed drama stars Julia Roberts, Natalie Portman, Jude Law and Clive Owen as two couples who become entangled in a web of love, passion and betrayal. Anna and Larry (Roberts and Owen) are happy together until she crosses paths with Dan (Law), who's dating Alice (Portman). Based on the play by Patrick Marber, who also wrote the screenplay. -

This Mike Nichols-directed drama stars Julia Roberts, Natalie Portman, Jude Law and Clive Owen as two couples who become entangled in a web of love, passion and betrayal. Anna and Larry (Roberts and Owen) are happy together until she crosses paths with Dan (Law), who's dating Alice (Portman). Based on the play by Patrick Marber, who also wrote the screenplay. -

This Mike Nichols-directed drama stars Julia Roberts, Natalie Portman, Jude Law and Clive Owen as two couples who become entangled in a web of love, passion and betrayal. Anna and Larry (Roberts and Owen) are happy together until she crosses paths with Dan (Law), who's dating Alice (Portman). Based on the play by Patrick Marber, who also wrote the screenplay. -

This Mike Nichols-directed drama stars Julia Roberts, Natalie Portman, Jude Law and Clive Owen as two couples who become entangled in a web of love, passion and betrayal. Anna and Larry (Roberts and Owen) are happy together until she crosses paths with Dan (Law), who's dating Alice (Portman). Based on the play by Patrick Marber, who also wrote the screenplay. -