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New Year's Eve

PG-13 Released Dec 9, 2011 1h 57m Holiday Romance Comedy TRAILER for List
7% Tomatometer 142 Reviews 45% Popcornmeter 50,000+ Ratings
Intertwining stories promise love, hope, forgiveness, second chances and more for a number of New Yorkers on the celebrated night. A rock star (Jon Bon Jovi) and his ex-lover (Katherine Heigl) clash at an exclusive party; a singer (Lea Michele) becomes stranded with a killjoy (Ashton Kutcher) on the way to a New Year's gig; a nurse (Halle Berry) stays with a dying patient (Robert De Niro) as he tries to hang on long enough to see the ball drop in Times Square one last time.
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Shallow, sappy, and dull, New Year's Eve assembles a star-studded cast for no discernible purpose.

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Roger Moore Tribune News Service The bland lead the bland through a sea of New Year's revelers... Rated: 1.5/4 Jan 5, 2013 Full Review Sara Michelle Fetters MovieFreak.com The movie is a serious waste of time. Rated: 1.5/4 Jan 27, 2012 Full Review Empire Magazine Rated: 1/5 Dec 23, 2011 Full Review James Croot Stuff.co.nz Yes, this 2011 tale might boast one of the most star-studded ensembles in a 21st Century Hollywood movie, but it saddles them with one of the most ploddingly predictable and thuddingly awful scripts in rom-com history. Rated: 1/5 Jan 6, 2023 Full Review Jason Best Movie Talk The stories are cheesy, all the stars overact and the direction... is disgracefully slack, but if you're watching in a spirit of holiday goodwill then its fuzzy warm-heartedness is passably entertaining. Rated: 2/5 Dec 17, 2020 Full Review Richard Propes TheIndependentCritic.com Far too long and one of the most badly cast films of 2011. Rated: 1.0/4.0 Sep 18, 2020 Full Review Read all reviews

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Ricardo W Puntos en contra: - El guión fácilmente puede calificar como el compendio de clichés más cursi y carente de sentido que se haya hecho alguna vez. - La trama puede resumirse en la siguiente frase: "la víspera de Año Nuevo es un momento de esperanza y reflexión para perdonar y corregir los errores, porque hay que escuchar al corazón, y ver con los ojos del alma, porque en realidad lo que importa es la familia, todos merecemos una segunda oportunidad, y la vida es muy corta, entonces hay que aprovechar cada instante, amar, rosa, nunca cambies, gracias por existir". - El film, en general, parece querer emular historias como Love, Actually, pero queda muy, muy lejos. Parece que alguien se dio cuenta en el camino, y aprovecharon a Lea Michele para darle un descarado brochazo de Glee, a Sarah Jessica Parker para hacer un makeover muy Sex and the City, Sofía Vergara le da un toque Modern Family, y por si eso no vende, que cante Bon Jovi. - No se justifica, desde ningún punto de vista, el desperdicio de actores, locaciones y presupuesto. Mucho menos que el film haya tenido acceso a escenarios neoyorquinos realmente privilegiados y aun así ni los escenarios parezcan interesantes. Puntos a favor: - Evidentemente, para haberse prestado a semejante adefesio, muchos de los actores tenían que deberle algunos favores a los productores. Digamos que ya están a mano. - Si alguien creía que el género de comedia romántica ya no podía caer más bajo, esta película no deja dudas: todavía quedan niveles del subsuelo por explorar. - Si James Cameron necesitaba ideas para su próximo film de ciencia ficción, aquí tiene una buena semilla: personajes que se teletransportan, aparecen y desaparecen en varios lugares al mismo tiempo, y recorren distancias increíbles pasando a través de los mares de gente en Times Square en cuestión de segundos, gracias a la magia del Año Nuevo... Awesome, dude! Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 10/06/24 Full Review Pili M This movie is cute. Light and heartwarming:) Rated 5 out of 5 stars 09/18/24 Full Review Salvador J At one point a guy named Sam is greeted by two girls and this dude looks at the camera and says "I'm a Sam-wich". I kid you not. Don't go anywhere near this movie if you don't want to be mad at all the stars in it that let this atrocity happen. I highly suspect someone laundered money or wrote off some taxes with it and that's the only reason it exists. Or maybe it was some rich dude's last wish or something. It's as if the director didn't show up to any of the filming and the screenwriter let her 5 year old kid finish every other sentence, then forgot to replace all the nonsense it wrote before sending it over to the actors. Robert De Niro is the only one who does a decent job the 5 minutes of screentime he has, and even he has stupid dialogue. I hope this movie was erased from the internet, it belongs in the dollar store's DVD basket. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 12/31/23 Full Review Arne R Every bad thing said about this movie is true, it's completely dull. Not a single character develops enough for the viewer to care about them even an ounce. How this many A-list actors even agreed to have this stain on their CVs is beyond me. I hope their paychecks were worth it. Thanks for one of the lamest evenings ive had in a while Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 12/27/23 Full Review John A For once, I actually agree with the verified critics here. I remember my wife watching this film; very cringe-inducing and very hard to watch, even past the intros. This movie has an ensemble cast for absolutely zero reason, and there is nothing going on for anyone to enjoy. Hard, hard pass. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 12/15/23 Full Review Antonio E I love it! One of my favorite Christmas film ever!!!! Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 12/15/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Intertwining stories promise love, hope, forgiveness, second chances and more for a number of New Yorkers on the celebrated night. A rock star (Jon Bon Jovi) and his ex-lover (Katherine Heigl) clash at an exclusive party; a singer (Lea Michele) becomes stranded with a killjoy (Ashton Kutcher) on the way to a New Year's gig; a nurse (Halle Berry) stays with a dying patient (Robert De Niro) as he tries to hang on long enough to see the ball drop in Times Square one last time.
Director
Garry Marshall
Producer
Mike Karz, Wayne Allan Rice, Garry Marshall
Screenwriter
Katherine Fugate
Distributor
Warner Bros. Pictures
Production Co
Wayne Rice, Karz Entertainment
Rating
PG-13 (Sexual References|Language)
Genre
Holiday, Romance, Comedy
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Dec 9, 2011, Wide
Release Date (Streaming)
May 1, 2012
Box Office (Gross USA)
$54.5M
Runtime
1h 57m
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