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New Year’s Eve (2011)
Director: Garry Marshall
Movie review
From Time Out London
Director Garry Marshall continues his systematic defilement of the calendar’s most romantic holidays with another romcom built and executed like a ’70s disaster movie. Repeating the formula from last year’s ‘Valentine’s Day’, Marshall assembles an all-star cast including (deep breath) Hilary Swank, Michelle Pfeiffer, Zac Efron, Sarah Jessica Parker, Seth Meyers, Sofia Vergara, Jessica Biel, Lea Michele from ‘Glee’ and many, many more for a labyrinth of intersecting melodramas and love stories set in New York City on, naturally, December 31. The hypothetical advantage of such a massive ensemble is the assumption that, somewhere among the high quantity of characters, there’ll be a few folks we actually like. Yet each plot thread is worse than the last: a welcome break from Katherine Heigl and Jon Bon Jovi’s interminable lovers’ quarrel simply means another trip to the hospital to watch Halle Berry console a cancer-ridden Robert de Niro. It all adds up to a celebrity-obsessed city symphony played on one painfully flat note.Author: Matt Singer, Time Out New York
Time Out London Issue 2155: 8 – 14 December, 2011
Cast & crew
Director: Garry Marshall
Cast: Robert De Niro, Hilary Swank, Michelle Pfeiffer, Ashton Kutcher, Sofía Vergara, Jessica Biel, Lea Michele, Abigail Breslin, Sarah Jessica Parker, Katherine Heigl, Zac Efron, Sienna Miller, Halle Berry, Alyssa Milano, Josh Duhamel full cast
Duration: 118 mins
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