Jesse is me re: Closer.

What the hell is Closer about? I saw the trailer for it yesterday, and it confused the hell out of me.

It's all about the pretty, and Julia Roberts is in it too.

Uh, two couples?

Okay, that was the impression I was left with. I just wondered if there was something else going on, other than some laughing in the face of monogamy and Jude Law hitting Natalie Portman with a car.

I also saw the trailer for "Code 46," which looks freaky and yet intriguing.

And the trailer for a Ramones movie whose title I can't remember, and "Riding Giants," a surfing movie about the pioneers of surfing, who are compared to astronauts.

Okay, that was the impression I was left with. I just wondered if there was something else going on, other than some laughing in the face of monogamy and Jude Law hitting Natalie Portman with a car.

Really, all I know is what I got from the trailer.

What the hell is Closer about? I saw the trailer for it yesterday, and it confused the hell out of me.

Setting aside my bitterness that the movie release caused the rights for the play to be pulled from me - Closer is basically the interactions of four people who are deeply fucked in the head and who like fucking each other, both in bed and emotionally. It is a fantastically gritty and emotional play when it's done right. I have no faith that either of the women will be able to pull it off. Jude can do shallow and monumentally self-serving, which is what his character is. I have no opinion on Clive Owen, as I haven't seen him in much.

This may be a stupid question, but wasn't there a musical called "Closer" a few years ago? (I remember reading that it was almost all dance, but not much else.) I thought the movie was based on that until I saw the trailers.

This may be a stupid question, but wasn't there a musical called "Closer" a few years ago? (I remember reading that it was almost all dance, but not much else.) I thought the movie was based on that until I saw the trailers.

This is based on a stage play, but I don't think there was dance involved. (Which Juliana describes.)

Clive Owen originated the part that Jude Law plays in the movie.

Plot synopsis for Closer, whitefonted (but using actor's names instead of character's):

Natalie & Jude meet when she gets into an accident in front of him. She's a waifish whacko wanderer-type, and he's a novelist. He takes her home with him. Later, Jude meets a photographer - Julia - and hits on her. Natalie is well aware of Jude's wandering eye and asks Julia not to go with him. Later, Jude poses as Julia in an online chat room and convinces Clive to meet him at a park that he knows Julia goes to often. Clive & Julia end up hooking up & moving in together. Jude finally convinces Julia to have an affair with him after Julia marries Clive. Jude & Julia move in together, & Clive finds Natalie in a strip club & has her move in with him. Clive manages to mind-fuck Julia into coming back to him, and Jude finds Natalie again and tries to mind-fuck her. Of course, there is no happy ending.

I'm not too sure how far they've strayed from the script, but that's the gist of it. It's entirely a character and relationship play.

This may be a stupid question, but wasn't there a musical called "Closer" a few years ago? (I remember reading that it was almost all dance, but not much else.)

You may be thinking of Contact.

It's all about the pretty, and Julia Roberts is in it too.

Damn. Dealbreaker.