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New Year's Day (1989 film)
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Wikipedia article
'New Year's Day' is a 1989 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Henry Jaglom.'Variety Film Reviews', Volume 21. R R Bowker Pub., 1989. It was entered into the main competition at the 46th Venice International Film Festival.
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.
Cast
*Maggie Wheeler as Lucy (credited as Maggie Jakobson)
*Gwen Welles as Annie
*Melanie Winter as Winona
*Henry Jaglom as Drew
*David Duchovny as Billy
*Milo Forman as Lazlo
*Michael Emil as Dr. Stadthagen
*Tracy Reiner as Marjorie
*James DePreist as Lucy's shrink
References
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