ACADEMY Award-winning director Mike Nichols follows the triumphant 'Angels in America' with 'Closer', a bitingly funny and honest look at modern relationships.

Set in contemporary London, 'Closer' is the story of four strangers, their chance meetings, instant attractions and casual betrayals.

Are humans meant to mate for life? What drives someone in a perfectly good relationship to cheat and risk losing the one that they love and loves them? Is it possible to love more than one person at the same time? How well does anyone really know the one that they love?

'Closer' questions the nature of relationships and fidelity as it follows the tangled web created by Dan (Jude Law), Alice (Natalie Portman), Anna (Julia Roberts) and Larry (Clive Owen).

Dan, a British writer of obituaries, and Alice, a young American dancer, meet in the film's opening scene when a London cab runs her down.

Cut to a year later: Dan and Alice are now a couple, but he is suddenly smitten with Anna, a beautiful American photographer. In an ironic twist of fate, Anna meets Larry, a British doctor, and they are soon a couple, despite Dan's continuing obsession.

But the entanglements don't end there, and ultimately, someone is sure to get hurt. The four players do justice to a script that is humorous, raw and disarmingly honest about adult relationships, in this funny and powerful film, reminiscent of Nichols' classics 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' and 'Carnal Knowledge'.

We have teamed up with Cineworld St Helens to offer our readers three pairs of free tickets to see 'Closer' (Cert 15).

To be in with a chance of winning, just answer the question below and send your entries with your name, address and daytime telephone number to Closer competition (Cineworld), St Helens Star, YMCA Buildings, Duke Street, St Helens, WA10 2HZ. Closing date is Wednesday 19 January.

Q: Who plays Dan in 'Closer'?