New Year's Day (1989 film)

89 minutes^[1]CountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglish

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.

• Maggie Jakobson as Lucy
• Gwen Welles as Annie
• Melanie Winter as Winona
• Henry Jaglom as Drew
• David Duchovny as Billy
• Miloš Forman as Lazlo
• Michael Emil as Dr. Stadthagen
• Tracy Reiner as Marjorie
• James DePreist as Lucy's shrink

• New Year's Day at IMDb
• New Year's Day at Rotten Tomatoes