Titolo originale: Noel Nazionalità: Stati Uniti Anno: 2004 Genere: drammatico, sentimentale Regia: Chazz Palminteri
Cast:
Susan Sarandon: Rose Harrison Penélope Cruz: Nina Vazquez Paul Walker: Mike Alan Arkin: Artie Venzuela Marcus Thomas: Jules Chazz Palminteri: Arizona Robin Williams: Charlie Boyd / Dio Erika Rosenbaum: Merry
La storia del film ruota intorno a cinque sconosciuti collegati tra loro da una serie di eventi che accadono alla vigilia di Natale. Rose (Susan Sarandon) è un'editrice divorziata che si prende cura della madre affetta dalla malattia di Alzheimer. Nina (Penélope Cruz) e Mike (Paul Walker) sono una giovane coppia in procinto di rompere per via della gelosia di lui. Artie (Alan Arkin) è un cameriere anziano, che ripensa ad Angelina, la sua defunta moglie ad ogni Natale. Infine Jules (Marcus Thomas) è un ragazzo che deliberatamente si ferisce le mani per poter passare le feste al pronto soccorso, l'unico posto in grado di riportargli momenti felici della propria infanzia.
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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.