My Netflix delivered a great romantic movie last week.
The movie is Closing the Ring. It stars Shirley McLaine and Christopher Plummer. It was produced in 2007. Its a Richard Attenborough movie. Setting splits its time between 15 years ago modern Dublin and Michigan, and pre World War II.
There is love shared by three guys and their girl. Only one gets to marry her. He dies with a promise from the others that will marry her if something should happen to the one that married her. The girl had only one true love and it was the one that was killed even though she married long after the first one's death, the friend.
Shirley McLaine puts on a great performance as the non grieving widow that has to face the discovery of the ring that is discovered by a young boy in war torn modern day Belfast.
The cinematography is great. Despite my description of it above, its pretty easy to follow.
I know that I am such a sucker for a good romantic movie. The recent crop of movies are pretty shallow compared to this one. There are some pieces of this movie that are not well developed and come across as somewhat ironic pieces instead of adding much to the matrix of the movie.
If you have a chance to see this one, it is a pretty good movie.
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I love a good romantic movie. We just rented "Water for Elephants" which was a good movie, even if it had some cruelty to the elephant, Rosie. I liked the book, the movie was ok... I do like Reese Witherspoon!
I think that some of the old movies have the best romance in them, it's time to dust off "Sabrina"... either one (Humphrey Bogart, Harrison Ford) were good, but the old one is soooo good, better ball gowns!
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