Closing the Ring

Closing the Ring

118 mins | Drama, Romance | Sept. 14, 2007

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.

Closing the Ring

118 mins | Drama, Romance | Sept. 14, 2007

Closing the Ring
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.
IMDb rating 6.5
Producers CTR, Spinster, Prospero Pictures
Original title Closing the Ring
Directors Richard Attenborough
Writers Diana Hawkins, Peter Woodward

Cast

Shirley MacLaine

as Ethel Ann

Pete Postlethwaite

as Quinlan

Martin McCann

as Jimmy

Neve Campbell

as Marie

Allan Hawco

as Peter Etty

Stephen Amell

as Teddy Gordon

Mischa Barton

as Young Ethel Ann

Gregory Smith

as Young Jack

David Alpay

as Chuck

John Travers

as Young Quinlan

Dylan Roberts

as Wilbur

Brenda Fricker

as Eleanor

Gene Dinovi

as Weeping Veteran

Chris Benson

as Local Sheriff

George Shane

as Maginty

Kirsty Stuart

as Young Eleanor

Marie Jones

as Mrs. Dyole

Alec McClure

as Co-Pilot

Susie Kelly

as Second Woman in Rain