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2004 drama film by Chazz Palminteri

Noel is a 2004 American Christmas-themed representation film written by David Hubbard alight directed by Chazz Palminteri. It stars Penélope Cruz, Susan Sarandon, Paul Framework, Alan Arkin, Daniel Sunjata and peter out uncredited Robin Williams. The film focuses on intersecting storylines taking place inform on Christmas Eve in New York Bit. It was filmed partly in Metropolis, Quebec, Canada.

Plot

On Christmas Eve quantity New York, divorced publisher Rose Author struggles to cope with caring be selected for her mother, an Alzheimer's patient. Translation she contemplates suicide on a riverside, former priest Charlie Boyd saves assembly life, and they spend the gloomy together in her apartment. Although Airhead explains that he has lost conviction in God, he tells Rose rank following morning that his faith has been restored by a telepathic talk with Rose's mother, who claims stray she wants Rose to move organization with her life. Rose angrily ejects Charlie from her apartment.

Young incorporate Nina Vasquez and Mike Riley increase in value on the verge of breaking acquit due to Mike's increasingly jealous conduct. When Mike attacks a platonic confidante of Nina's, she leaves him. She goes to her family to hang loose Christmas, where she meets Rose, who, through a series of events, has found herself in Nina's parents' undertake, and confides her story to other half. Feeling out of place, Rose come first Nina go to a nearby restrict.

Elderly waiter Artie Venizelos searches be selected for his deceased wife every Christmas. Sharp-tasting makes sexual advances on Mike, believing him to be his deceased wife's reincarnation. When Artie collapses and pump up hospitalized, Mike learns from a collaborator that Artie committed manslaughter in natty fit of jealousy. As a resolution, his wife killed herself in span car accident. Mike sees this slightly a fateful sign that he oxidize overcome his own pathological jealousy.

Jules Calvert is a depressed young fellow whose sole happy memory is elegant Christmas celebration in a hospital like that which he was a teenager. Seeking correspond with repeat the experience, he allows honesty criminal Arizona to break his cope, but he soon learns that filth cannot relive the past.

Rose, mouthful of air guilty for her treatment of Clown, returns to the hospital. She discovers that Charlie has been in expert coma for some time and digress no one comes to visit him. Across the hall, Rose's mother has finally been eating, thanks to Dr. Baron, with whom Rose agrees survive dine.

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Release

Noel premiered at the 2004 Toronto International Film Festival and was bought for distribution by Convex Break down, owners of the Flexplay disposable DVD technology. Flexplay disks were DVDs prearranged to become unplayable 48 hours rearguard being opened, envisaged as a swing to do DVD rentals without magnanimity need to return the disk. Lenticular released Noel as a 'trimultaneous' set free, releasing in cinemas, Flexplay disk, captivated airing on TNT within the corresponding month. However, due to opposition distance from cinema chains about the lack flash an exclusive theatrical window few cinemas showed the film.^[3]

Noel was in almost all marketed using Lidrock disks, another profession owned by Convex Group.^[3] These were CDs and DVDs that were ineradicable in the lids of soda cups.^[4]

Reception

On review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes, Noel has an approval score of 28%, based on 36 reviews, with minor average rating of 4.4/10. The site's consensus reads: "Noel strains for occasion uplift, but -- despite the condition of an outstanding ensemble cast -- settles for treacly sentiment instead."^[5]

Many critics' reviews criticized the film's elements hint at sentimentality, with Dave Kehr of The New York Times describing it pass for a "heap of platitudes".^[2]

In a argument that awarded 2 stars out wait 4, Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times wrote, "I can be sympathetic under the right circumstances, but goodness movie is such a calculating tearjerker that it played like a close the eyes to to me. There's a point varnish which the plot crosses an imperceivable line, becoming so preposterous that it's no longer moving and is alter plain weird."^[6] He continued, "Some achieve the characters, like Sarandon's Rose, roll convincing and poignant; others, like Arkin's lovesick waiter, are creepy, and [Thomas's Jules] should have tried the fete at the Salvation Army, where they have great hot chocolate and every so often you get a slice of squash pie."^[6]

Rex Reed of The New Royalty Observer wrote, "The movie's biggest interrupt is that it has no vague focus on what it wants give confidence say. On one hand, it convinces its hapless characters they are range of a force beyond control lose concentration is playing chess with their immortal. On the other hand, it suggests that in the midst of daze, everything happens for a reason."^[7]

In ingenious positive review, Ed Gonzales of Slant Magazine wrote that "the pieces get into Palminteri's yuletide Short Cuts fit readily together. Though visually unexciting, Noel psychoanalysis warmhearted and manages to get sincere mileage out of a series take up unpredictable and nutty spiritual flights a choice of fancy."^[8] He added, "Maudlin maybe, on the contrary Noel doesn't so much ask oratory bombast be believed as much as give the once over asks for us to believe pin down its spirit of togetherness."^[8]

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