Best New Year’s Movies
By Dr. Ted Baehr, Publisher
Here are five relatively family-friendly movies about New Year’s Eve, at least partially, that make for great viewing…
1. THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE
Quality: * * * *, Acceptability: +1, 1972: The classic redemptive adventure movie where Gene Hackman, playing a courageous Protestant reverend, leads a group of survivors out of a gigantic cruise ship capsized on New Year’s Eve. A great Christian movie!
2. HAPPY NEW YEAR, CHARLIE BROWN
Quality: * * * *, Acceptability: +3, 1985: Charlie Brown and his friends celebrate New Year’s Eve with a party.
3. AN AMERICAN IN PARIS
Quality: * * * *, Acceptability: +2, 1951: Gene Kelly recovers his true love at a New Year’s Eve party in one of the great American musicals directed by Vincente Minnelli.
4. AFTER THE THIN MAN
Quality: * * * *, Acceptability: +1, 1936: Nick and Nora Charles get involved in a murder mystery at a New Year’s Eve party. Great light fun, but the Thin Man does love his alcohol, but he also clearly loves his wife.
5. THE APARTMENT
Quality: ****, Acceptability: -1, 1960: The basic storyline is somewhat racy, but it never is salacious and it has a redemptive message. In it, a man lets his boss and the higher ups in his company use his apartment to cheat on their wives. But, there’s a redemptive ending when the hero helps the girlfriend of his boss when she becomes suicidal out of guilt. True love overcomes in the end, and the hero stands up to his venal boss, played extraordinarily well by Fred MacMurray before he made MY THREE SONS and Disney’s THE ABSENT MINDED PROFESSOR. Caution is advised due to the mature themes.
Copyright © 2010 by Dr. Ted Baehr, Movieguide®
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Quality: * * * *, Acceptability: +1, 1972: The classic redemptive adventure movie where Gene Hackman, playing a courageous Protestant reverend, leads a group of survivors out of a gigantic cruise ship capsized on New Year’s Eve. A great Christian movie!
2. HAPPY NEW YEAR, CHARLIE BROWN Quality: * * * *, Acceptability: +3, 1985: Charlie Brown and his friends celebrate New Year’s Eve with a party.
3. AN AMERICAN IN PARIS Quality: * * * *, Acceptability: +2, 1951: Gene Kelly recovers his true love at a New Year’s Eve party in one of the great American musicals directed by Vincente Minnelli.
4. AFTER THE THIN MAN Quality: * * * *, Acceptability: +1, 1936: Nick and Nora Charles get involved in a murder mystery at a New Year’s Eve party. Great light fun, but the Thin Man does love his alcohol, but he also clearly loves his wife.
5. THE APARTMENT Quality: ****, Acceptability: -1, 1960: The basic storyline is somewhat racy, but it never is salacious and it has a redemptive message. In it, a man lets his boss and the higher ups in his company use his apartment to cheat on their wives. But, there’s a redemptive ending when the hero helps the girlfriend of his boss when she becomes suicidal out of guilt. True love overcomes in the end, and the hero stands up to his venal boss, played extraordinarily well by Fred MacMurray before he made MY THREE SONS and Disney’s THE ABSENT MINDED PROFESSOR. Caution is advised due to the mature themes. Copyright © 2010 by Dr. Ted Baehr, Movieguide®
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