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New Year's Eve
Theatrical release poster
Directed by
Garry Marshall
Produced by
Mike Karz
Wayne Allan Rice
Garry Marshall
Written by
Katherine Fugate
Starring
Halle Berry
Jessica Biel
Jon Bon Jovi
Abigail Breslin
Ludacris
Robert De Niro
Josh Duhamel
Zac Efron
Héctor Elizondo
Katherine Heigl
Ashton Kutcher
Seth Meyers
Lea Michele
Sarah Jessica Parker
Michelle Pfeiffer
Til Schweiger
Hilary Swank
Sofía Vergara
Carla Gugino
Alyssa Milano
Music by
John Debney
Cinematography
Charles Minsky
Edited by
Michael Tronick
Production
company
New Line Cinema
Wayne Rice Films
Karz Entertainment
Distributed by
Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date
December 9, 2011 (2011-12-09)
Running time
118 minutes[1]
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$56 million[2]
Box office
$142 million[3]
New Year's Eve is a 2011 American romantic comedy film directed by Garry Marshall. The film consists of an ensemble cast including Halle Berry, Jessica Biel, Jon Bon Jovi, Abigail Breslin, Ludacris, Robert De Niro, Josh Duhamel, Zac Efron, Héctor Elizondo, Katherine Heigl, Ashton Kutcher, Seth Meyers, Lea Michele, Sarah Jessica Parker, Michelle Pfeiffer, Til Schweiger, Hilary Swank, Sofía Vergara, Carla Gugino and Alyssa Milano.
New Year's Eve is the second in an unofficial trilogy of romantic comedy films directed by Garry Marshall, set on a one-day holiday and featuring an ensemble cast in a variety of stories, the other films being Valentine's Day (2010) and Mother's Day (2016). Some of the cast of New Year's Eve had previously appeared in Valentine's Day, including Biel, Kutcher and Elizondo. New Year's Eve was released on December 9, 2011, and grossed $142 million.
Contents
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1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Reception
3.1 Critical reception
3.2 Box office
3.3 Accolades
4 Parodies
5 References
6 External links
Plot[edit]
On New Year's Eve, Vice-President of the Times Square Alliance Claire Morgan (Hilary Swank) is making the final arrangements for the ball drop with the help of her friend Police Officer Brendan (Chris "Ludacris" Bridges). Meanwhile, after being nearly run over by a car and denied a vacation, Ahern Records secretary Ingrid Withers (Michelle Pfeiffer) quits her job and offers the deliveryman Paul Doyle (Zac Efron) tickets for the Ahern Records Masquerade Ball if Paul helps her complete a series of New Year's resolutions before midnight, which he accepts.
Paul's sister Kim Doyle (Sarah Jessica Parker) is having trouble with her teenage daughter Hailey (Abigail Breslin) who wants to spend New Year's Eve with her friends and her boyfriend Seth Anderson (Jake T. Austin) in Times Square. Paul's friend, comic book illustrator Randy (Ashton Kutcher), who hates New Year's Eve after his girlfriend left him on a date, gets stuck in an elevator with Elise (Lea Michele), an aspiring singer who will be providing back-up for musician Daniel Jensen (Jon Bon Jovi) in his show at Times Square. He also prepares to perform at the Ahern Records ball, where he rekindles his feelings for his ex-girlfriend, Laura (Katherine Heigl).
At a nearby hospital, Stan Harris (Robert De Niro), a man in the final stages of cancer who refuses chemotherapy and who only wishes to see the ball drop one last time, is kept company by Nurse Aimee (Halle Berry) and Nurse Mindy (Alyssa Milano) after his doctor (Cary Elwes) reveals he will not last much longer. In the same hospital, a young couple named Griffin (Seth Meyers) and Tess Byrne (Jessica Biel) are about to have their first child, and they compete with another couple, James (Til Schweiger) and Grace Schwab (Sarah Paulson), for a bonus offered to the family of the first child born in the new year. Elsewhere, Sam (Josh Duhamel), a businessman from Ahern Records, attempts to go to the Ahern Records Ball, where he is to deliver an important speech, after his car malfunctions outside New York City, all the while wondering if he should attend a meeting with a mysterious woman he met and fell in love with on the previous New Year's Eve.
In the early evening, one of the LED panels on the Times Square Ball malfunctions, jamming the ball and forcing Claire to call Kominsky (Héctor Elizondo), an electrician who the company had fired a few weeks prior. Kominsky repairs the ball before midnight, and, in gratitude, Claire leaves him in charge of the operation, and rushes to see the ball drop with her father, Stan. Meanwhile, Nurse Aimee has a video conference with her husband Chino (Common), a soldier serving in Afghanistan. Stan passes away just after the ball drops and a chorus of Auld Lang Syne, with Claire holding his hand.
Paul helps Ingrid complete all the items on her list, and she gives him the tickets. Meanwhile, Randy and Elise bond, and, as they are about to kiss, the elevator is repaired by the building superintendent (James Belushi) and Elise rushes to Jensen's show. Randy notices she forgot her rubber band and rushes to give it to her. At Times Square, Jensen leaves midway during his show to return to the Ahern Ball to apologize to Laura, who accepts him back and leaves with the approval of Sam. With Jensen gone, Elise is called to replace him and attracts the attention of the crowd. She kisses Randy, and they start a romantic relationship.
Griffin and Tess have their baby and, although it is born first, they lie to allow James and Grace to have the bonus after discovering they already have two other children to provide for. Meanwhile, after being forbidden from attending the celebration, Hailey runs away to Times Square, where she sees Seth being kissed by another girl, Lily, unaware that he had been kissed against his will. Heartbroken, she meets and is comforted by her mother. Seth finds them and apologizes, revealing Lily to have stolen a kiss from him. Hailey forgives and kisses him. Her mother allows her to go to an after-party. Kim then goes to a restaurant to meet Sam, who had succeeded in delivering his speech. She is the mysterious woman he met one year prior, and they finally discover each other's names.
Cast[edit]
Jake T. Austin as Seth Anderson
James Belushi as Building Super
Halle Berry as Nurse Aimee
Jessica Biel as Tess Byrne
Michael Bloomberg as himself
Jon Bon Jovi as Daniel Jensen
Abigail Breslin as Hailey Doyle
Ludacris as Lieutenant Brendan Nolan
Robert De Niro as Stan Harris
Josh Duhamel as Sam Ahern, Jr.
Zac Efron as Paul
Héctor Elizondo as Lester Kominsky
Carla Gugino as Dr. Morriset
Katherine Heigl as Laura
Ashton Kutcher as Randy
John Lithgow as Jonathan Cox
Katherine McNamara as Lily Bowman
Seth Meyers as Griffin Byrne
Lea Michele as Elise
Alyssa Milano as Nurse Mindy
Sarah Jessica Parker as Kim Doyle
Russell Peters as Sunil
Michelle Pfeiffer as Ingrid Withers
Sarah Paulson as Grace Schwabrs
Ryan Seacrest as himself
Til Schweiger as James Schwab
Hilary Swank as Claire Morgan
Sofía Vergara as Ava
Nat Wolff as Walter
Reception[edit]
Critical reception[edit]
On review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 7% based on 136 reviews and an average rating of 3.1/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Shallow, sappy, and dull, New Year's Eve assembles a star-studded cast for no discernible purpose."[4] On Metacritic, the film has a score of 22 out of 100 based on 30 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".[5] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale.[6]
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times said, "New Year's Eve is a dreary plod through the sands of time until finally the last grain has trickled through the hourglass of cinematic sludge. How is it possible to assemble more than two dozen stars in a movie and find nothing interesting for any of them to do?"[7] Kimberley Jones of the Austin Chronicle said, "Mostly, New Year's Eve is appalling stuff, a poorly constructed, sentimental sham. Auld Lang Syne."[8] Claudia Winkleman on the BBC One show Film said "I have found the worst film of all time, and it is called New Year's Eve."[9] Rolling Stone shared the same opinion and gave a zero stars rating, stating "Director Garry Marshall follows last year's Valentine's Day romcom crapfest with an even more puke-up-able sample of the species" and concluding New Year's Eve is "bad beyond belief".[10] British newspaper The Telegraph named New Year's Eve one of the ten worst films of 2011.[11] British film critic Mark Kermode named it as the worst film of 2011.[12] On the more positive side, Entertainment Weekly's Owen Gleiberman said, "New Year's Eve is dunderheaded kitsch, but it's the kind of marzipan movie that can sweetly soak up a holiday evening."[13]
The film earned five Razzie Award nominations: Worst Picture, Worst Director (Garry Marshall), Worst Actress (Sarah Jessica Parker), Worst Screenplay and Worst Screen Ensemble,[14] losing all to Adam Sandler's Jack and Jill.
Box office[edit]
The film opened at the No. 1 spot at the box office with $13.0 million.[15][16] It made $54,544,638 in the United States and Canada, as well as $87,500,000 in other countries, for a worldwide total of $142,044,638.[3]
Accolades[edit]
Award
Category
Recipients
Result
Alliance of Women Film Journalists[17] Actress Most in Need of a New Agent All actresses in New Year's Eve Won
BET Awards[18] Best Actor Common Nominated
Golden Raspberry Awards Worst Picture
Nominated
Worst Director Garry Marshall Nominated
Worst Actress Sarah Jessica Parker Nominated
Worst Screenplay Katherine Fugate Nominated
Worst Screen Ensemble The entire cast of New Year's Eve Nominated
Golden Trailer Awards[19] Golden Fleece “One Night Domestic Trailer” Nominated
Teen Choice Awards[20] Choice Movie Scene Stealer: Female Lea Michele Nominated
Parodies[edit]
New Year's Eve, and its predecessor Valentine's Day, were parodied in December 2011 on the sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live in a trailer for the fictional film The Apocalypse, set on the last day on Earth.[21] They were similarly parodied on the TV show 30 Rock, in the January 2012 episode "The Ballad of Kenneth Parcell", in a trailer for a film called Martin Luther King Day, whose large cast includes Jenna Maroney.[22]
References[edit]
Jump up ^ "NEW YEAR'S EVE". bbfc.co.uk.
Jump up ^ "Company Town". Los Angeles Times. December 8, 2011.
^ Jump up to: a b "New Year's Eve (2011) - Box Office Mojo". boxofficemojo.com.
Jump up ^ "New Year's Eve". Rotten Tomatoes. December 9, 2011.
Jump up ^ "Critic Reviews for New Year's Eve - Metacritic". Metacritic.
Jump up ^ "CinemaScore". cinemascore.com.
Jump up ^ "New Year's Eve". Chicago Sun-Times. December 7, 2011.
Jump up ^ "New Year's Eve".
Jump up ^ "Film 2011 with Claudia Winkleman episode 18". BBC. Retrieved December 8, 2011.
Jump up ^ Travers, Peter (December 8, 2011). "Movie Reviews – New Year's Eve". Rolling Stone. Retrieved December 14, 2011.
Jump up ^ "Ten worst films of 2011". The Daily Telegraph. London. December 15, 2011. Retrieved December 17, 2011.
Jump up ^ Video on YouTube
Jump up ^ "Movie Review: New Year's Eve". Entertainment Weekly. December 15, 2011.
Jump up ^ "RAZZIES Nominations". Archived from the original on February 29, 2012.
Jump up ^ "Box office report: 'New Year's Eve' drops the ball with $13.7 million; 'The Sitter' can't fill seats".
Jump up ^ "Weekend Report: No Party for 'New Year's Eve'".
Jump up ^ "2011 EDA Awards Nominees". Retrieved June 13, 2016.
Jump up ^ "2012 BET Awards Winners & Nominees". April 8, 2012. Retrieved June 13, 2016.
Jump up ^ "GOLDEN FLEECE". Retrieved June 13, 2016.
Jump up ^ Ng, Philiana (June 14, 2012). "Teen Choice Awards 2012: 'Breaking Dawn,' 'Snow White' Lead Second Wave of Nominees". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved June 13, 2016.
Jump up ^ "The Apocalypse" video, Saturday Night Live
Jump up ^ "'30 Rock': Jenna Stars In Celeb-Packed 'Martin Luther King Day' Movie (VIDEO)". The Huffington Post. January 27, 2012.
External links[edit]
Official website
New Year's Eve on IMDb
New Year's Eve at the TCM Movie Database
New Year's Eve at AllMovie
New Year's Eve at Box Office Mojo
New Year's Eve at Metacritic
New Year's Eve at Rotten Tomatoes
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Pretty Woman (1990)
Frankie and Johnny (1991)
Exit to Eden (1994)
Dear God (1996)
The Other Sister (1999)
Runaway Bride (1999)
The Princess Diaries (2001)
Raising Helen (2004)
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Georgia Rule (2007)
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