New Year's Day
Synopsis
So Jake, Steve and their classmates go with Mr. Diamond, their English teacher, to France to ski. One of their friends, Heather, has brought along a videocam and is making a documentary about them all, what they want, who they want, ambitions and fear, that kind of thing. Day one they hit the official slopes but the next days it's off-piste. The eleven friends lark about for Heather's camera when BANG! The avalanche hits and they're all swept away on a sea of snow.
Jake wakes up buried in a snow-cave next to Steven. He thinks they're both goners but next time he wakes up it's hospital, rescued. He finds Steven in a nearby bed. Everyone is dead, all of them, Heather, Mr. Diamond, everyone . . .
Back home it's a huge tragic news story. Jake and Steven fly back to their families and a grieving town with the coffins of their friends on the plane with them. As the town, school and families struggle to come to terms with it, Jake and Steven are lost, separated from everything, unable to understand.
They meet and talk. Why didn't we die too? What should we do? What's the point? They stand on a high cliff and look down. Should they jump? No. They decide they'll make a book and fill it with a series of tasks, not important tasks, just things they want to do before they die. And they'll spend the year doing them . . .
Details
- Year
- 2000
- Type of project
- Features
- Running time
- 100 mins
- Format
- 35mm Fuji
- Director
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Suri Krishnamma
- Producer
- David Forrest, Beau Rogers
- Editor
- Adam Ross
- Screenwriter
- Ralph Brown
- Director of Photography
- John De Borman
- Principal cast
- Andrew Lee Potts, Bobby Barry, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Jacqueline Bisset
Genre
Categories
Production Status
Production Company
Alchymie 93/95 Wardour Street London W1V 3TE Tel: 020 7851 7000 Fax: 020 7851 7010
Sales Company
The Works 4 Great Portland Street London W1W 8QJ tel 020 7612 1080 fax 020 7612 1081
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