Movie · 2007
Closing the Ring
“Discover the love of a lifetime.”
Released 14 September 2007 118 min Drama / Romance More from 2007 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗
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.
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How old were they?
Gene Dinovi
as Weeping Veteran
Christopher Plummer
as Jack
Shirley MacLaine
as Ethel Ann
Brenda Fricker
as Eleanor
Pete Postlethwaite
as Quinlan
Ian McElhinney
as Cathal Thomas
Chris Benson
as Local Sheriff
Dylan Roberts
as Wilbur
Neve Campbell
as Marie
Allan Hawco
as Peter Etty
Stephen Amell
as Teddy Gordon
David Alpay
as Chuck
Martin McCann
as Jimmy
Gregory Smith
as Young Jack
Mischa Barton
as Young Ethel Ann
John Travers
as Young Quinlan
George Shane
as Maginty
Marie Jones
as Mrs. Dyole
Allan Gildea
as First Policeman
Tom Collins
as Fireman Fergus
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The numbers
61years between the oldest and youngest billed
79Gene Dinovi — oldest on the call sheet
18John Travers — youngest billed
44average age of the credited cast