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Halle Berry, Jessica Biel, Jon Bon Jovi, Abigail Breslin, Robert De Niro ... see more see more... , Josh Duhamel , Hector Elizondo , Katherine Heigl , Ashton Kutcher , Seth Meyers , Lea Michele , Sarah Jessica Parker , Michelle Pfeiffer , Til Schweiger , Hilary Swank , Sofía Vergara , Chris "Ludacris" Bridges , Ryan Seacrest , Zac Efron , Alyssa Milano , Sienna Miller , Charlotte Marshall-Fricker , Fiona Choi , Mary Marguerite Keane , Michael Mandell , Patrick Reale , Cary Elwes , Common , Barbara Marshall , Sarah Paulson , Carla Gugino , Amber Bela Muse , Peter Allen Vogt , Ross Ryman , Kal Parekh , Russell Peters , Serena Poon , Sarge , Jim Belushi , Lillian Lifflander , Jake T. Austin , Mara Davi , Jaclyn Miller , Cassidy Reiff , Nat Wolff , Kendra Jain , Julia Randall , Christian Fortune , Tatyana Disla , Chealy Phoung , Marvin Braveman , Alexandra Rose Guthy , Denise Violante , Katherine McNamara , Norman Bukofzer , Beth Kennedy , Joey McIntyre , Jackie Seiden , Sean O'Bryan , Larry Miller , Jack McGee , Yeardley Smith , Benjamin McGowan , Jon-Christian Costable , Juliette Allen-Angelo , Drena De Niro , Vanessa Mendoza , Christine Lakin , Sandra Taylor , Shea Curry , Earl Rose , Johnny Debrito , Samuel Mitchell , Amare Stoudemire , Cherry Jones , Kathleen Marshall , Joey Sorge , Rob Nagle , Matt Walker , Wedil David , David Valcin , Stephanie Fabian , Patrick Collins , Pat Battle , Tom Hines , Greg Wilson , Anna Aimee White , Sam Marshall , Susan Silver , Emily Moss Wilson , Bob Weston , Lucy Woodward , Stephanie Alexander , Nicole Sobchack , Anna Kulinova , Rylie J. Neale , Lily Marshall-Fricker , Lori Marshall

New Year's Eve celebrates love, hope, forgiveness, second chances and fresh starts, in the intertwining stories told amidst the pulse and promise of New York City on the most dazzling night of the yea... read more read more...r. -- (C) Warner Bros

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PG-13, 1 hr. 57 min.

Directed by: Garry Marshall

Release Date: December 9, 2011

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DVD Release Date: May 1, 2012

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  • romy861
    April 14, 2012
    romy861
    It was okay. It lost half a star for the inclusion of Jon Bon Jovi and his horrible singing (also it was really creepy watching him romantically involved with the much younger katherine Heigl).
    There is a lot of stories and characters here. Some I liked (Abigail Breslin, Michel... read morele Pfeifer, Katherine Heigl). Others I couldn't care less about (Jessica Biel, Hillary Swank).
    If you liked Valentines Day, you might enjoy this, but there is definitely better out there.
  • xXGiNoBiLiPRXx
    April 9, 2012
    xXGiNoBiLiPRXx
    The lives of several couples and singles in New York intertwine over the course of New Year's Eve.

    Pretty much what I expected. The combination of great actors just mixing up in different stories is always good but you do need a good plot and this was good enough to me. Probabl... read morey a movie I'll see more than once but I won't buy it. Go see it!

    Set during New Year's Eve in New York city, this movie follows several people and how the day affects them. Kim is a single mother who still thinks of her daughter, Hailey as a child who wants to go out with a boy so that she could kiss him at midnight. Claire, who is in charge of the city's annual tradition, the ball drop on Times Square. And when something goes wrong she has to ask an electrician, who was fired, to come and fix it. Laura, a chef who is cooking the New year's Eve party for a record company who runs into Jensen, her ex who's a singer whose performing at the party. While he tries to apologize for how things ended, she refuses to accept it. Ingrid, a woman who works at the record company, after having a near death experience decides to quit her job and asks a young messenger, Paul to help her fulfill her resolutions. And at a hospital, Stan, a man who is in the final stages of cancer, only wishes to see the ball drop. Also Griffin and Tess, a couple who are expecting, want to be the ones who give birth first after New Year because of the available cash prize; but another couple is also about to give birth. Randy a man who's not exactly fond of the holiday because of something that happened, finds himself trapped in an elevator with a singer who is one of Jensen's back up singers when he performs at Times Square. And Sam, son of the owner of the record company, who is out of town and is trying to get back to the city so that he could give a speech at the party, but when he has an accident and since it's a holiday, his car can't be fixed so he hitches a ride with some people going to the city. But it seems he has another reason why he needs to get back.
  • aquateen2
    January 3, 2012
    aquateen2
    Dont end/start the year with this god awful rom com. Good cast but bloody awful plot and characters. Most of these cast members dont fit with each other anyway! Halle Berry and Ashton Kutcher in the same movie?! Robert deNiro and Askhton Kutcher in the same movie?! Hell anyone of... read more these great actors with Ashton Kutcher is a bad ensemble (he's a good actor dont get me wrong but only when he makes good chemistry with his fellow cast members like two and a half men). To be direct, New Years Eve is a romantic comedy thats aim is to be heartwarming at this wonderful time of the year but comes across as a blizzard of bad chemistry and therefore not romantic in the slightest.
  • DreamExtractor
    December 28, 2011
    DreamExtractor
    New Years Eve was basically a clone of the 2009 film Valentines Day, it has the same director, the same writer, same producers, and the same storyline but there is one difference between the two movies, they are different holidays, and I felt like that is the only difference. Th... read moree story follows many different people who all have different experiences on the day of New Years Eve. The plot is exactly what we all were expecting, a vignette of people who all have different stories, but as I was expecting, the stories are uninteresting, the characters are boring, and we all know that they are going to end a on a good note and be really romantic so what was there really to look forward to, no matter how many of these films they make and I cannot see a story like this ever really being good. The cast consists of some very big actors including Ashton Kutcher, Katherine Heigl, Halle Berry, Robert DeNiro, Michelle Pfeifer, Abigail Breslin, Josh Duhamel, Jon Bon Jovi, Sarah Jessica Parker, Zac Efron, Sofia Vergara, Jake T. Austin, Jessica Biel, Ludacris, Seth Meyers, and Ryan Seacrest, and you know what, not a single one of these actors could show how good they are because they only get about 10 minutes of screen time each so what can i say other than they all did this film for a paycheck and nothing else. The comedy was not meant to really make people laugh, it is meant to give a few giggles to some girls who go with their boyfriends to a cheesy romantic movie, so if you did laugh at the film Valentines Day, you will not laugh at this film. New Years Eve respects the holiday and does not stray from being a film that celebrates the holiday so I did not completely dislike the film, but in my opinion it failed in everything else such as story, acting, romance and comedy so I recommend to anybody who wants a good film, but if you want to see a film to celebrate the New Year this is what you will want to see.
  • thmtsang
    December 25, 2011
    thmtsang
    All eyes are on New York on New Year's Eve. Similar to Valentine's Day it follows the lives of people interacting. Pregnant couples compete to win money for giving birth to first baby of the new year, Robert de Niro has a dying wish, a guy and gal agree to meet one year on in NYC... read more. Good cast. Heart warming.
  • PedroPauloA
    December 24, 2011
    PedroPauloA
    New Year's Eve

    It's OK

    This is a fun film, very chessy and stupid but worth sitting around and enjoying it. Each story has a cute little message for everyone where it can get at some point too cute that becomes really dumb.

    The cast is great. The m... read moreovie is about a bunch of famos actors having their individual new year's eve story and at some point their intertwine. There are some awesome names like De Niro, and people like Kutcher and Breslin act really well. But at the same time there are people like Pfeiffer , Heigl and Jessica Parker that are horrible.

    So watch this movie at your own risk. You might enjoy it or you might hate it, it depends on how much chesse you can tolerate, and I dont mean wheter your lactose intolorent or not. Have a Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year.

    Claire Morgan: "Remember, second chances don't expire until midnight. "
  • wildaly14
    December 24, 2011
    wildaly14
    A little bit funny. Good but not great.
  • flutieman07
    December 21, 2011
    flutieman07
    Exactly what you would expect. The performances are spotty at best, but that's no surprise considering they've got a good 2-dozen celebrities starring in different roles. Really enjoyed most of the subplots, and despite being on the lookout for twist endings at the outset, it's... read more still a satisfying ending. The question I have: What holiday do they hit next?
  • fb100001050230219
    December 17, 2011
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    Just to be quick, I'm gonna review the film with slight changes to something that Hilary Swank says at the beginning of ''New Year's Eve''. ''Magic does exist in the world, because once a year the world come together to HATE ON A CRAPPY ROMANTIC COMEDY''
  • matertenebraum
    December 16, 2011
    matertenebraum
    Well, having seen Valentine's Day and it was crap, now, New Year's Eve felt mechanical and forced, a project merely designed for profit. This is rather a 118 minute tourist video about how wonderful The Big Apple is.

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Critic Reviews

Rafer Guzman
December 9, 2011
Rafer Guzman, Newsday

New Year's Eve is a perfect example of why the adjective "Hollywood" is so often used as a pejorative. Full Review

Linda Holmes
December 9, 2011
Linda Holmes, NPR

The only entertaining way to watch New Year's Eve is as a cruel experiment in which performers stranded with absolutely no script support are forced to subsist on pure presence, which quickly becomes ... Full Review

Tom Long
December 9, 2011
Tom Long, Detroit News

Written on the level of a bad episode of The Love Boat, this is one of those concoctions that intertwines about 10 storylines and then concludes with a cherry on top. Full Review

Lisa Kennedy
December 9, 2011
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post

The only thing that can inspire more cynicism than a holiday's coerced emotions may be a film that both exploits and celebrates said emotions. Full Review

Richard Roeper
December 9, 2011
Richard Roeper, Richard Roeper.com

It's all perfectly pleasant and perfectly harmless and perfectly bland. Full Review

Stephen Whitty
December 9, 2011
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger

Should auld acquaintance be forgot? I don't know, but "New Year's Eve" sure should be. Full Review

Dave McGinn
December 9, 2011
Dave McGinn, Globe and Mail

This New Year's Eve leaves you feeling like you've got no one to kiss at midnight. Full Review

Ann Hornaday
December 9, 2011
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post

Sags when it should shimmer, labors clunkily when it should glide and - most unforgivably - plops some otherwise attractive and even talented actors into roles that are completely outside their physic... Full Review

Sara Stewart
December 9, 2011
Sara Stewart, New York Post

A soul-sucking monument to Hollywood greed and saccharine holiday culture. Full Review

Linda Barnard
December 9, 2011
Linda Barnard, Toronto Star

We hope that somewhere amid the streamers and popping champagne corks director Marshall is making a resolution to stop making these movies. Full Review

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