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Noel (2004) 6.2
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Metascore: 29/100
Reviews: 34 user | 29 critic | 15 from Metacritic.com Five New Yorkers come together on Christmas Eve, seeking a miracle. Director:Chazz PalminteriWriter:David Hubbard |
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Cast
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Dennis
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Debbie Carmichael
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Christmas Eve in New York, and the lonely divorced publisher, Rose Collins, needs a miracle to improve the health of her mother, interned in a hospital with Alzheimers. She feels sorry for another patient and meets his visitor. Meanwhile, Nina Vasquez breaks her engagement with her beloved fiancé Mike due to his suffocating jealousy, but misses him. Mike is stalked by a stranger, bartender Artie Venzuela. The poor Jules arranges to spend Christmas Eve in the hospital, where he spent the best Christmas of his life when he was a teenager. The lives of some of these characters cross with others along the night. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Rated PG for sensuality, thematic material and some language | See all certifications »Parents Guide:
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EnglishRelease Date:
26 November 2004 (Italy) See more »Also Known As:
Ängel i New York See more »Box Office
Opening Weekend:
$59,130 (South Africa) (25 November 2005)Gross:
$59,130 (South Africa) (25 November 2005)Company Credits
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Composed by Franz Gruber (uncredited)
Performed, Arranged and Lyrics by Arthur Holden
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Was released into a 48-hour trial DVD after its theatrical release. See more »Goofs
In the hospital, the nurse behind the counter is seen with glasses. In one scene she removes the glasses. However when the shot changes, her glasses are back on and she removes them again. See more »Quotes
Charlie: You saved me Rose. I was wondering where God was and then the next thing you know, there you are at the bedside of a complete stranger telling him you love him was such meaning. And then I knew God was there in that room, with you.See more »
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"Silent Night"Composed by Franz Gruber (uncredited)
Performed, Arranged and Lyrics by Arthur Holden
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"Noel" is a lovely holiday fable that has been unfairly savaged by critics. I found it a charming matching of everyday hard knocks (though only shot partly in New York City) and magic realism.
Key to its attraction are two of the central characters amidst the ensemble Christmas Eve stories.
Susan Sarandon is marvelous as a 40-something woman dragged down by her Alzheimer's mother who undergoes in effect a walkabout through the city to reexamine her life.
Paul Walker is wonderful as a very macho, very New York cop whose explosive jealousy around his fiancée pushes her away. As she is Penelope Cruz in the only English-language role I've ever liked her in, his reaction to how guys look at her is grounded in some reality. His own reaction to her sexy private dancing for him ratchets up the seasonal temperature in terrific chemistry of his blue-eyed blond and her sultry darkness, though I don't know if the televised version on TNT cut anything from the theatrical version.
The central characters are touched by oddballs, played by Robin Williams and Allan Arkin, who are as unlikely as Clarence from "It's A Wonderful Life" or the old man in "Prelude to a Kiss," and similarly help them reach important epiphanies at dawn.
The pay-off also finally comes in a side story about a man with nostalgia for Christmas in the E.R., but is more heavy-handed.
The repeated jokes about straight guys misidentified as gay are of the heavy handed "Will and Grace" mode but are useful to specific plot points.