New Year's Day (1989)

User Rating:

5.0/10   

Director:

Henry Jaglom

Writer:

Henry Jaglom (writer)

Release Date:

21 December 1990 (Netherlands)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama

Tagline:

Time to move on...

Plot:

A man returns to his sublet apartment to find the previous tenants, three offbeat young women, still in residence...

Plot Keywords:

Apartment | New Year's Day | New York | Party | Parents

Cast

Maggie Wheeler	...	Lucy (as Maggie Jakobson)
Gwen Welles	...	Annie
Melanie Winter	...	Winona
Henry Jaglom	...	Drew
David Duchovny	...	Billy
Milos Forman	...	Lazlo
Michael Emil	...	Dr. Stadthagen
Donna Germain	...	Dr. Stadthagen's Friend
Harvey Miller	...	Lucy's Father
Irene Moore	...	Lucy's Mother
James E. dePriest	...	Lucy's Shrink
Tracy Reiner	...	Marjorie
Robert Hallak	...	Delivery Man
Katherine Wallach	...	Delivery Man's Friend
Paul Dark	...	Redheaded Man
Adam Guettel	...	Young Man
James Hurt	...	Winona's Brother
Kristina Loggia	...	Stella
Robert Morton	...	Stella's Friend
Rodger Parsons	...	Annie's Boss

Directed by
Henry Jaglom

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Henry Jaglom		writer

Produced by
Phyllis Curott	....	associate producer
Judith Wolinsky	....	producer

Cinematography by
Joey Forsyte

Makeup Department
Angela Nogaro	....	makeup artist

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Helen Kantor	....	assistant director

Art Department
Barbara Flood	....	set dresser

Sound Department
John Boyd	....	sound re-recording mixer
Patricia Brolsma	....	boom operator
Catherine Calderon	....	additional sound
Judy Karp	....	sound
Sunny Meyer	....	additional sound
Laurie Seligman	....	boom operator
Paul A. Sharpe	....	sound re-recording mixer
Edward F. Suski	....	sound re-recording mixer

Camera and Electrical Department
Hanania Baer	....	additional photographer
Bonnie S. Blake	....	second assistant camera (as Bonnie Blake)
Nesya Blue	....	additional cinematographer
Richard Boyle	....	gaffer
Dan Elsasser	....	assistant camera
Chris Fenney	....	key grip
Jeff Levy	....	gaffer
Charlie Marroquin	....	grip
Glenn R. Miller	....	electrician
James Rosenthal	....	gaffer
Randy Shanofsky	....	camera operator
Jim Sofranko	....	gaffer
Susan Starr	....	first assistant camera

Editorial Department
Michelle Hart	....	assistant editor
Ruth Zucker Wald	....	associate editor

Other crew
Helen Kantor	....	assistant to director
Elicia Laport	....	production assistant
Tommy Winston	....	production assistant
Patrick Woods	....	production assistant

Production Companies

• International Rainbow
• Jagfilm

Distributors

• Rainbow Releasing (1990) (USA) (theatrical)

Runtime:

88 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

USA:R

Filming Locations:

New York City, New York, USA

Company:

International Rainbow

Trivia:

The "screenplay" for this film famously consisted of one mass, visually daunting flow-chart of ideas circled and connected to each other (in the center of this mass of ideas was written "New Year's Day (Time to Move On)". Typical to Jaglom's style, the actors improvised all the dialogue.

Quotes:

Lazlo: What does a man usually say when he can't perform?

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Saturday Night Live: David Duchovny/Rod Stewart (#20.20)" (1995)

Soundtrack:

It's a Most Unusual Day

For the diehard David Duchovny fan only

Face it. There's a four word explanation for why you *might* want to see this film. "David Duchovny as Billy". Unless this kind of self-infatuated dialogue-driven "action" is your bag. Maggie Wheeler, as Lucy, actually turns in a fine performance as well, but I have to tell Jaglom the same thing I'd tell Tarantino: "Quit putting yourself in your own films. It makes you look pathetic." And whether or not he's acting, Jaglom doesn't have Tarantino's sense to play an *interesting* character once he's in his own movie. He has to play the same annoying know-it-all, fish out of water. Now, back to David Duchovny. He plays a sex-addicted playboy, Lucy's boyfriend. Be kind, it's his first film, and strange to see him so young. But there's no denying who that wonderful voice belongs to. Oh, and halfway through, he pulls a full-frontal scene in the hall, right before he's kicked unceremoniously (and naked) out of the apartment. Watch this right before you watch the X-Files or another Duchovny film like "The Rapture", "Kalifornia" or "X-Files: Fight the Future." It's nice to see the progress he made as an actor. Even with this first performance, it's easy to see that Duchovny is an heir to the Buster Keaton throne of underacting.