

Closing the Ring
Discover the love of a lifetime.
During the 1940s, a group of young men go off to war, leaving behind Ethel Ann, who is in love with one of them, Teddy. In modern-day Belfast, a man named Jimmy endeavors to return a ring found in the wreckage of a crashed plane. He travels to Michigan, where the grown Ethel Ann, who married another man after Teddy was killed in battle, now lives. Ethel Ann must decide whether to go with Jimmy to meet the soldier who last saw Teddy alive.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $23M
- Box office
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- Language
- English
- airplane
- world war ii
- bomber
- love
- soldier
- battle
- belfast, north ireland
- ring
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Canada, United Kingdom, United States of America
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalR14 Sept 2007
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical12A28 Dec 2007
CanadaCA
- Theatrical (limited)18A14 Sept 2007
BrazilBR
- Theatrical1230 May 2008
GermanyDE
- Physical1217 Sept 2008
HungaryHU
- Digital / OTT1629 Nov 2008
IrelandIE
- Digital / OTT15A28 Dec 2007
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Closing the Ring was released on 14 September 2007.
Audience reviews
1- C7/10
CinemaSerf
8/30/2023
Richard Attenborough has assembled a good cast for this nostalgic wartime drama. In a troubles-torn Belfast, the young Wilbur (Dylan Roberts) finds a ring in a burnt out aircraft left over from WWII. His search for the owner leads him to Shirley MacLaine's "Ethel Ann", and our story slowly reveals, via a mix of current and retrospective scenarios, just what happened when and to whom. The beginning is a bit disjointed…
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