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Noel
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 42 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: October 25, 2005
- Originally Released: 2004
- Label: Screen Media
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Susan Sarandon, Penélope Cruz, Paul Walker & Alan Arkin | |
Performer: | Marcus Thomas, Donna Hanover, Chazz Palminteri, Daniel Sunjata, Sonny Marinelli, Carmen Ejogo & Robin Williams | |
Directed by | Chazz Palminteri | |
Edited by | Susan E. Morse | |
Composition by | Alan Menken | |
Produced by | Howard Rosenman, Al Corley, Bart Rosenblatt & Eugene Musso | |
Director of Photography: | Russell Carpenter |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2/5 --
Palminteri draws some very good performances from his cast -- only to pile on a lot of shameless heart-tugging on top of a contrived script about five New Yorkers facing Christmas Eve alone.
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Los Angeles Times
Rating: 1.5/4 --
The mawkishness meter is turned up full blast by the time Williams, wearing the hangdog expression he saves for maudlin dramas, shows up out of nowhere as a former priest to save an unhappy Sarandon from jumping into the East River.
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New York Daily News
Rating: 2/5 --
Christmas tearjerker has mature themes, some sex.
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Common Sense Media
I had a very hard time displaying malice to this.
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Cinema Crazed
Rating: C --
The kind of sappy, sadness-turns- to-gladness holiday movie that shows up on cable TV this time of year.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Rating: 2/4 --
I can be sentimental under the right circumstances, but the movie is such a calculating tearjerker that it played like a challenge to me.
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Chicago Sun-Times
One of those unpleasant fiascoes meant to lodge a lump in the throat at Christmas, but it only ends up making you want to bludgeon the elves with their own toy-shop hammers.
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Observer
Product Description:
A first-rate cast comes together for this collection of intertwining tales of lonely New Yorkers reaching out to each other on Christmas Eve. Susan Sarandon plays Rose, a widowed editor who spends way too much time at the hospital bed of her Alzheimers-stricken mother. Robin Williams is the mysterious fellow who later prevents her from possibly jumping in the East River. Meanwhile Nina (Penelope Cruz) gets tired of the violently jealous outbreaks of her cop boyfriend, Mike (Paul Walker), and breaks their engagement. An obsessive old waiter (Alan Arkin) is convinced Mike is the reincarnation of his dead wife, while in another story a troubled young man (Marcus Thomas) attempts to smash up his hand so he can attend an emergency room Christmas party. Needless to say, these tales intersect movingly and the miracle of Christmas provides major healing to each character involved. Sarandon is a stand-out among the many fine performances here, Cruz is beautiful as always, but the real jaw-dropping surprise is Paul Walker. Famous as the dopey "white guy" in those FAST AND THE FURIOUS films, Walker reveals great depths of tortured feeling as the cop struggling to save his future family. Actor Chazz Palminteri (A BRONX TALE) directed this, his first feature film. Though set in New York, it was filmed in Montreal, so no, it's not a Christmas miracle that the city looks so nice and clean. Alan Menken (Disney's THE LITTLE MERMAID) provides the score.
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Product Info
- UPC: 025192878220
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