As the title suggests, Closing the Ring is all about finding closure and moving on. For Ethel Ann (Shirley MacLaine), she held on to the past for too long, shutting out her present, and nearly missing her chance for a happy future.It was the 1940s. Teddy (Stephen Amell), together with his buddies Chuck (David Alpay) and Jack (Christopher Plummer) went off to war. Ethel Ann promises Teddy that she'll love him forever. Teddy makes Chuck and Jack (in that order) that they will take care of his "wife" if anything should happen to him. You can probably guess what happens. Teddy promptly gets kill off. Chuck steps in to take in place. Ethel Ann only gives in 10 years after by agreeing to marry him, and it was another 5 years before she bore Chuck a daughter. Even then, father and daughter never got anything extra from her.
Fast-forward 50 years. Some kid in Belfast find Teddy's "wedding" ring and flies to America to hands it over to Ethel Ann. Her daughter finds out the big secret and walks out in anger. Ethel Ann flies to Belfast to determine once and for all if Teddy really is dead. In the middle of a daytime IRA bombing, she meets this man who was actually by Teddy's side when his B-17 crashed into the mountains. He reveals to her that Teddy actually freed her from vow of eternal love before he died. Ethel Ann gets her closure and if I know my movies, she later ends up with Jack.
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