New Year's Day (film)

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New Year's Day
Directed by	Suri Krishnamma
Produced by	Simon Channing-Williams Stephen Cleary
Written by	Ralph Brown
Starring	Marianne Jean-Baptiste Anastasia Hille Andrew Lee Potts Jacqueline Bisset
Music by	Julian Nott
Cinematography	John de Borman
Editing by	Adam Ross
Release date(s)	June 27, 2001
Country	UK
Language	English
IMDb profile

New Year's Day is a 2001 comedy-drama film starring Andrew Lee Potts, Bobby Barry, Jacqueline Bisset, Anastasia Hille, Michael Kitchen, Sue Johnston, Ralph Brown and Marianne Jean-Baptiste. It was written by Ralph Brown and directed by Suri Krishnamma.

The film follows two teenagers, Jake (Potts) and Steve (Barry) as they cope with life after being the sole (viable) survivors of an avalanche. Their teacher also survives the accident, but remains comatose and dies soon after the start of the film. The two boys make a suicide pact agreeing that on the one year anniversary of the avalanche, they will kill themselves. The two spend their last year living life to the fullest. This takes the form of a list of 'tasks' which they both must fulfill before dying.

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An original idea which has since been copied in various forms (30 things to do b4 ur 30 etc...) The movie has a tremendous screenplay by British actor Ralph Brown and is well shot revealing in dramatic and excellent episodes the generation gap, and conflicts surrounding today's youngsters, and the pathos that overwhelms them following a tragedy.

New Year's Day won best film at the Raindance Film Festival 2001, and best film at the Sapporo Film Festival 2001.

New Year's Day (film) at the Internet Movie Database

Bobby Barry is the main songwriter of The Pipettes and has a solo career as singer/songwriter/eminence grise Monster Bobby.