i be extremely disappointed and irritate by this film . movie should be about be transport into the life and situation of the people on the screen but that singularly fail to happen in the case of closer . the character and relationship definitely do not ring true at all . it not a question of not like the people depict and though none be likable and especially not the irritating doctor character . it not a question of find some of the language shock it be no more shocking than you would see in a tv drama and there be virtually no nudity or sex . it just that you couldn not care less about the character a you do not really get to know them . each one have no feeling of reality and no subtlety and no authenticity . they do thing people only do in film and not in real life . do doctor really sit and engage in chat room sex talk in a hospital back office before go into the theatre to do an operation . would photographer anna have talk to and befriend sleazy doctor larry in the aquarium . and then marry him . do people really hitch and split and re hitch and bitch and bawl and spit at each other over who be do it with whomsoever extramarital lover or just ex and and be not tell the truth . truthfulness toreal life be something this story lack completely . i find the dialogue wooden and the word contrive and the performance stag . maybe it work well a a play . if so then it have not transfer successfully to film . i find it suffocate to have so many high profile actor together . you know when a movie isn not work when you start to see the script roll in front of you like an autocue and and when you think you can see the crew look on a the actor work through their line . after waste two hour and five pound on this movie i be lose my confidence in go to the cinema and except to see something i have see before or have be personally recommend to me .