New Year's Eve
Short description
New Year's Eve follows a large group of New Yorkers whose separate stories unfold across December 31 and the arrival of the new year. Among them are a woman overseeing the celebrations in Times Square, a single woman who sets out to keep the promises she made to herself, a man who dislikes the holiday, and a terminally ill patient cared for in a hospital. The film moves among them as their paths cross during the city's busiest night, with romance, second chances and fresh starts running through several of the stories.
Garry Marshall directed and produced, working from a screenplay by Katherine Fugate. It was the seventeenth of the eighteen features he directed, arriving after Valentine's Day and before Mother's Day, and it shares that earlier film's approach of weaving many loosely connected characters into a single holiday. The cast is unusually large, with 101 credited performers, among them Hilary Swank, Michelle Pfeiffer, Zac Efron, Robert De Niro, Halle Berry and Jessica Biel.
Released in December 2011, the film cost about 56 million dollars and took roughly 142 million dollars worldwide, so it recovered its budget comfortably. Audiences were lukewarm: on IMDb it holds 5.6 from about 93,000 votes, and on TMDB 5.9 from roughly 2,200. A critics' rating of 3.2 from 139 reviews is markedly lower than either audience figure.
What's left behind the scenes
- Halle Berry was originally slated to star in the film, but she left the project due to scheduling conflicts, and the role intended for her went to Katherine Heigl. After the completion of legal proceedings regarding child custody, Berry rejoined the film's cast, but in a different role.
- This was Carey Elwes' eighth role as a doctor in his acting career.
- The film was announced as a sort of continuation of Garry Marshall's romantic comedy 'Valentine's Day' (2010). The filmmakers redistributed roles among the actors, made some changes to the plot, and the resulting film differed somewhat from what was originally intended and announced.
- Halle Berry and Michelle Pfeiffer played Catwoman in different adaptations. Anne Hathaway also played the role, and she also starred in Garry Marshall's romantic comedy 'Valentine's Day' (2010).
- Matthew Broderick played Mr. Bullerton in the film "Old New Year", and in John Hughes' "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" (1986), he played Ferris Bueller.
- Reese Witherspoon turned down the role offered to her in the film.
- This is the second collaboration between Zac Efron and Michelle Pfeiffer. In 2007, the musical film "Hairspray" directed by Adam Shankman, starring them both, was released.
- For the sake of secrecy, the film was distributed to cinemas under the title "The Last Romance".
- Juliette Binoche turned down the role of Ingrid offered to her.
- Michelle Pfeiffer and Robert De Niro starred together in Luc Besson's black comedy "Malavita" (2013). These actors do not appear together on screen in the film "Old New Year".
- Gary Marshall often casts his daughter Kathleen, sister Penny, Hector Elizondo, Larry Miller, and Joel McCreary in cameo roles in his films.
- Reese Witherspoon turned down the role in the film.
- The film was distributed to cinemas under the title "The Last Romance".
- When Paul (Zac Efron) receives a phone call in the restroom (around the 63rd minute), the soundtrack from the Russian computer game "Space Rangers," titled Awakening, plays.
- When Kominsky, played by Hector Elizondo, appears, the phrase "The Eagle has landed" can be heard on the radio. Elizondo's character uttered the same words in the film "The Princess Diaries".
- The kissing scene between Jake T. Austin and Abigail Breslin was filmed on the 15th take.
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