New Year?s Eve Movie-Watching

I know a few people who head out most weekends all year long, but, when New Year’s Eve comes, they choose to stay in. Decided to skip the night that many call “Amateur Night?” Cozy up with New Year’s themed movies instead:
- Poseidon (2006) – A year-end luxury cruise goes awry when a 100-foot rogue wave crashes into the ship.
- 200 Cigarettes (1999) – set in 1981 on New Year’s Eve in Manhattan, this film follows a number of people all invited to the same New Year’s Eve party.
- Ocean’s 11 (1960) – if you haven’t seen the original Rat Pack version, it is worth checking out. A group of Army vets get together to pull off a New Year’s Eve casino heist.
- Strange Days (1995) – two days before the end of the year, an ex-cop turned illegal immersive software runner deals with the darkside of “squid,” electronic devices that can record and broadcast a person’s thoughts and experiences.
- After Hours (1985) – this offering strays from the New Year’s theme a bit. But, the story of an evening in the city gone wrong fits right in with some of the other entries on this list.
- When Harry Met Sally (1989) – the classic romantic comedy follows platonic male & female friends for years, including checking in on them on a couple of New Year’s Eve parties.
- The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) – this utterly underappreciated screwball comedy about the (totally apocryphal) origins of the hula hoop has its climax on New Year’s Eve.
- Trading Places (1985) – on New Year’s Eve, a rich banker (Dan Aykroyd) and a poor hustler (Eddie Murphy, back in the days he was funny) are made the victims of two rich brothers’ experiment in seeing what happens when two people at opposite ends of the social hierarchy are forced to switch places.
- Entrapment (1999) – Catherine Zeta Jones and Sean Connery play an art thief and an insurance investigator in an uneasy partnership to pull off the New Year’s Eve heist of the century.
- After the Thin Man (1936) – in this classic murder caper film, Myrna Loy and William Powell play a wise-crack exchanging detective couple.
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