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www.wolfentertainmentguide.com - : Even the presence of Susan Sarandon doesn’t help much. She plays Rose, who works in publishing and dotes on her hospitalized mother, who has Alzheimer’s and is totally out of it. Rose has no love life, or even dates. She is depressed but tries to keep a cheery façade. When a young hunk working in the company convinces Rose to have dinner with him and they wind up in her apartment, she can’t bring herself to follow the advice of a colleague to get some sex. more...
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www.boxoffice.com - : Set on Christmas Eve and continuing through Christmas day, the drama introduces us to a motley group of New Yorkers who hate their lives or circumstances. There's the long-suffering woman (Susan Sarandon) whose life has been reduced to taking care of her Alzheimer's afflicted mother. There's the insecure cop (Paul Walker) whose pathological jealousy jeopardizes his impending... more...
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rogerebert.suntimes.com - : ''Noel'' tells the usual story of sad strangers who seek happiness on Christmas Eve, with the variation that most of the characters are stark staring mad. Christmas is a holiday fraught with hazards, anyway, and these people are clearly not up to it. Thanksgiving is the most angst-free holiday, with no presents to buy, no cards to send, and mountains of turkey. But the genre of Thanksgiving movies is dominated by miserable, destructive family reunions; only the wonderful ''What's Cooking'' gives the holiday a break. more...
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