New Year's Eve (2011)
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Duration: 118 minuten
Country:
United States
Directed by: Garry Marshall
Stars: Halle Berry, Jessica Biel and Jon Bon Jovi
IMDb score:
5,6 (92.719)
Releasedate: 8 December 2011
New Year's Eve plot
"The one night anything is possible."
The film is about the entwined stories of a group of New Yorkers trying to find their way to romance over New Year's Eve. We follow an embittered dying man in a hospital (De Niro), a frustrated executive secretary (Pfeiffer) who finally tries to fulfill her unfulfilled dreams, a female producer (Swank) of the famous Times Square New Year's Eve show and a young man ( Kutcher) who hates New Year's Eve.
Actors and actresses
Claire Morgan
Stan Harris
Ingrid Withers
Sam
Kim Doyle
Paul
Elise
Randy
Nurse Aimee
Daniel Jensen
Reviews & comments
blurp194
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- 5543 messages
- 4226 votes
Definitely a mistake to watch this movie after New Years. Just before that, it may even provide a marginally better viewing experience.
Some segments are still funny - the elevator, the resolutions. But the rest is quite old-fashioned to downright annoying. The somewhat lesser actors - Heigl, Parker for example - are very impressive, perhaps due to a lack of attention from the director. Perhaps overwhelmed by the complexity to bring 9 stories together somewhat. Overextended to the script, it seems.
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IH88
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- 9761 messages
- 3190 votes
New Year's Eve
To hang an entire love movie on Christmas or Valentine's Day I understand. And to see all kinds of famous actors struggling with their love lives provides entertaining material. But to extend that to New Year's Eve is a bridge too far. The result is an uninspired film full of annoying characters and actors who collect their paychecks on autopilot.
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Onderhond
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- 87623 messages
- 12889 votes
ugh.
I knew this was a thing (say a thing - fans can look for the All's Well Ends Well movies) in Hong Kong, but it's actually the first time I see it in the Western film world. The ensemble film around New Year, in which an enormous can of actors is opened in order to lure a lot of people to the cinema.
The difference is that those HK films are often smooth comedies where those famous actors like to embarrass themselves when necessary. Marshall opts for a mix of broken drama and failing romance, which immediately makes such a film a lot less interesting.
It also doesn't help that it is mainly B-grade actors who show up here, that the stories are very dull and that the film also lacks a warm heart in the end. It's just as fake as the whole New Year's thing, coincidentally the event that is glorified here.
I won't remember much about it, except that I think Nivea sponsored this film entirely. I have nothing against a little product placement per se, especially when it happens naturally, but the advertising in this film is really ridiculous.
1.0*
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