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02/09/06
Noel (2004)
26 %
Reviews Counted: 34 Fresh: 9 Rotten:25 Average Rating: 4.3/10
Runtime: 1 hr 42 mins
Synopsis: A first-rate cast comes together for this collection of intertwining tales of lonely New Yorkers reaching out to each other on Christmas Eve. Susan Sarandon plays Rose, a widowed editor who spends way too much time at the hospital bed of her Alzheimers-stricken mother. Robin Williams is the... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Penélope Cruz, Susan Sarandon, Alan Arkin, Paul Walker, Marcus Thomas
Director: Chazz Palminteri
Screenwriter: David Hubbard
Producer: Howard Rosenman, Al Corley, Bart Rosenblatt, Eugene Musso
Composer: Alan Menken
Screenwriter: David Hubbard
Producer: Howard Rosenman, Al Corley, Bart Rosenblatt, Eugene Musso
Composer: Alan Menken
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12/06/05
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08/16/07
A film about folks celebrating Christmas together is about as interesting and carries as much dramatic thrust as the 1989 Christmas reunion video immortalized on Uncle Fred's camcorder.
04/06/06
The sentiments are right on the money, but the execution never quite filled me with holiday cheer.
11/20/05
There's nothing at all surprising about Noel, except for the fact that it was ever made.
11/19/05
If you are looking for a Christmas film that is unconventional, that has a lot of heart without wallowing in sentimentality, this is a good bet.
11/16/05
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12/19/04
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Three tear-jerking stories about faith, love and the redemptive spiritual power of a frosty Christmas Eve
11/24/04
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11/23/04
Fits snugly into the ‘Christmas movie’ canon by tapping into familiar problems, tugging at the heartstrings and stirring your tired soul.
11/23/04
One of those unpleasant fiascoes meant to lodge a lump in the throat at Christmas, but it only ends up making you want to bludgeon the elves with their own toy-shop hammers.
11/18/04
Noel delivers two astonishing scenes of love and forgiveness that will take your breath away and are perfectly in tune with the miraculous nature of Christmas.
11/16/04
I can think of 59,054,087 people who are intellectually deprived enough to buy into “Noel.”
11/13/04
The kind of sappy, sadness-turns- to-gladness holiday movie that shows up on cable TV this time of year.
11/12/04
The all-star cast do their best, but the individual stories are so truncated that they can't do much in the way of giving their characters real emotional depth.
11/12/04
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