New Year's Day (1989 film)

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New Year's Day
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Directed by Henry Jaglom
Written byHenry Jaglom
Starring David Duchovny
Maggie Wheeler
Gwen Welles
Henry Jaglom
CinematographyJoey Forsyte
Distributed byThe Rainbow Company
Release date
  • December 13, 1989 (1989-12-13)
Running time
89 minutes [1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

New Year's Day is a 1989 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Henry Jaglom. [2] It was entered into the main competition at the 46th Venice International Film Festival. [3]

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Plot

Set entirely inside a New York City apartment on a snowy New Years Day, Drew is a recently divorced, middle-aged Hollywood writer/director who arrives back in New York looking for a path to start his life over and upon arriving at his old apartment, finds three young women residing there until the end of the day. They are the free-spirited Lucy, a multi-career woman and part-time actress who wants to move to Hollywood to start her life over; Annie is a photographer and Lucy's best friend who wants to move to L.A. with Lucy, but is unsure at what she wants to do with her life; Winona is a 30-year-old magazine editor who feels her biological clock ticking and wants to start a family. An assortment of people soon arrive at the apartment for a party where they talk amongst each other about their stance in life in which Drew sees the inspiration from the conversations on deciding to start his life over.

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References

  1. "New Year's Day". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2021-06-01.
  2. Variety Film Reviews , Volume 21. R R Bowker Pub., 1989.
  3. Giorgio Cecchetti (29 July 1989). "Tre italiani per un leone d'oro". La Repubblica . p. 17.