Close to You

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Close to You

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Released Aug 16, 2024

1h 40m

Drama

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Academy Award Nominee Elliot Page (Juno, The Umbrella Academy, Inception) stars as a trans man who returns to his hometown for the first time in years. On his journey, he confronts his relationship with his family, reunites with a first love, and discovers a newfound confidence in himself. A Toronto International Film Festival premiere.

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Critics Consensus

A passion project for Elliot Page that benefits from his naturalism, Close to You's improvisational scripting yields dramatically uneven but ultimately moving results.

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Christy Lemire

FilmWeek (LAist)

There is an erratic quality to how much of it connects and flows.

Sep 16, 2024

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Helen O'Hara

Time Out

Director and star conceived the story and then the cast largely improvised the dialogue that drives it along. Sometimes that results in meandering or overblown moments, but the general thrust is powerful enough to carry it along.

Rated: 3/5

Sep 11, 2024

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Ella Kemp

Empire Magazine

Page shines bright in an otherwise formulaic story, but this is still a thoughtful, sensitive portrait of a young man coming to terms with his sense of self and the love he deserves.

Rated: 3/5

Sep 5, 2024

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Louis Skye (Ronita Roy Mohan)

Women Write About Comics

Close To You was one of the best films I’ve seen at TIFF 2023. The performances were magnificent. Page is stunning and heartbreaking to watch. The queer romance was beautiful. It was an immersive and authentic experience.

Aug 20, 2025

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Emily Wheeler

Emily Wheeler Movie Ops

Structurally and stylistically it’s not very good, and yet it still manages to get across some hard truths.

Jul 5, 2025

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Rick Burin

iNews.co.uk

While Close to You is transparently imperfect, it is a sincere joy to have its gifted lead back on the big screen.

Rated: 3/5

Jan 16, 2025

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Yolanda

Most underrated movie of the year! Truely excellent.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

05/03/25

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Alma D

This movie is very boring and the cinematography is frustrating.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

07/21/25

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Ali N

The romance in this film is way, way too unrealistic. I'm sorry for you romantics out there like me who always root for love even when it's unrealistic, but since this film is trying to capture real life there is no way in a million years that a rich bisexual woman is going to leave her decent, good looking husband, underage kids, and a very nice home and nice, wealthy, safe life in general for a poor transman who lives with a roommate. So that pulled me out of the film. Also frustrating how the day with the family ended so suddenly for no good reason really. His parents were trying so hard to accept him and have him be a part of the family, but instead he acted like a spoiled brat and just left without saying thanks for trying or even a good bye. Doing improve might have been fun for the actors but it wasn't fun for the audience.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

06/28/25

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Kyle M

Compelling showcase for Elliot Page that feels triumphant over his natural, personally experienced edge to solidify the improvised commentary, which the atmosphere feels ideally awkward and yielded till the erupted drama implies unseen possibility left unsatisfyingly unresolved. That may be intended, if so then the rest of the culminated energy is considerably uneven, but that could be conflicting when viewing this inexperienced or uninvolved enough to properly grasp. Simply put, Page’s may have independently found emotional bliss in his passion project, it’s the story that’s incomplete amidst misled direction. (B-)

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/13/25

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Carolyn S

I’m so glad I was patient with this film. In the end, I found it poignant and several performances, especially Page, Baack, and Crewson, were deep and layered. This isn’t a perfect film. The beginning was the most challenging for me, not so much because of slow pacing, but because the film felt unsure of itself and a bit awkward. Like it was a documentary. By the end, I was in tears and so appreciative of the journey.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

12/15/24

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Paul B

Totally Boring. About a subject I could care less about.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

12/02/24

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Academy Award Nominee Elliot Page (Juno, The Umbrella Academy, Inception) stars as a trans man who returns to his hometown for the first time in years. On his journey, he confronts his relationship with his family, reunites with a first love, and discovers a newfound confidence in himself. A Toronto International Film Festival premiere.

Director: Dominic Savage
Producer: Daniel Bekerman, Krishnendu Majumdar, Elliot Page, Dominic Savage, Richard Yee, Chris Yurkovich
Screenwriter: Dominic Savage
Distributor: Greenwich Entertainment
Production Co: Kindred Spirit, Me & You Entertainment, Good Question Media
Rating: R (Language)
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Aug 16, 2024, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 17, 2024
Runtime: 1h 40m

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