Veteran director Richard Attenborough is famous for Ghandi and A Bridge Too Far — yes, he's that old — is back with a new film called Closing the Ring. Unfortunately, it is long, boring and ridiculous. You can't help but dump him in the same bin marked "Guys Who Should Quit", which already contains George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola.

Martin McCann plays a young Irish man who discovers the wreckage of an American fighter plane. There, he finds a gold ring that is steeped in history. Dogged by a sense that he should return it to its owner, he goes all the way to Minnesota to finds the dead pilot's widow, played by Shirley MacLaine. A very long and boring love story unfolds in flashbacks.

Closing the Ring is just plain awful.