New Year's Day | |
Director: | Henry Jaglom |
Starring: | David Duchovny Maggie Wheeler Gwen Welles Henry Jaglom |
Cinematography: | Joey Forsyte |
Distributor: | The Rainbow Company |
Runtime: | 89 minutes[1] |
Country: | United States |
Language: | English |
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]
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.