Movies set at New Year’s, or where the new year plays a role somehow
Heatwave (1982)
When Harry Met Sally (1989)
The Poseidon Adventure
Strange Days
The Horn Blows At Midnight
Ocean’s Eleven (1960)
The Big Year
The bird finding hunt takes place over a calendar year, ending with Bostick finally photographing his elusive snowy owl just before auld lang syne is heard in the background.
Movies set at New Year’s, or where the new year plays a role somehow
Heatwave (1982)
When Harry Met Sally (1989)
The Poseidon Adventure
Strange Days
The Horn Blows At Midnight
Ocean’s Eleven (1960)
The Big Year
Constantine
Ghostbusters II
It’s foreshadowed at the very beginning of the movie, in which a psychic on Venkman’s show says he believes the world will end on New Year’s Eve. Thanks to Vigo the Carpathian, he’s nearly right.
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
released between the Summer of Love and Woodstock, when the year 2001 seemed so remote as to be entirely fictional; now people born then can vote, drink, and rent cars