Closing the Ring
Closing the Ring is a 2007 film directed by Richard Attenborough and starring Shirley MacLaine, Christopher Plummer, Mischa Barton, Stephen Amell, Neve Campbell, Pete Postlethwaite, and Brenda Fricker. It was the final film directed by Attenborough before his death eight years later.
The film opens in 1991, with the funeral of a World War II veteran. The mans daughter Marie Neve Campbell delivers the eulogy to a church full of veterans who knew and loved her father, while her mother Ethel Ann Shirley MacLaine is sitting out on the church porch, smoking and nursing a hangover. When Ethel Ann begins acting strangely, only her friend Jack Christopher Plummer seems to understand why. It quickly emerges that there is a lot Marie does not know about her mothers past and the true story of her love life.The movie flips to a time when Ethel Ann was young, lively, and optimistic young Ethel Ann played by Mischa Barton. She is in love with a young farmer, Teddy Gordon played by Stephen Amell, who goes off to war with his best friends Jack Gregory Smith and Chuck David Alpay, but not all of them make it back alive. The plot lines intertwine with the story of a young Ulsterman in Belfast, Jimmy, who finds a ring in the wreckage of a crashed B17 and is determined to return it to the woman who once owned it. ........
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