- published: 22 Dec 2011
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New Year's Day is a 2001 comedy-drama film starring Andrew Lee Potts, Bobby Barry, Jacqueline Bisset, Anastasia Hille, Michael Kitchen, Sue Johnston, Ralph Brown and Marianne Jean-Baptiste. It was written by Ralph Brown and directed by Suri Krishnamma.
The film follows two teenagers, Jake (Potts) and Steve (Barry) as they cope with life after being the sole survivors of an avalanche. Their teacher also survives the accident, but remains comatose and dies soon after the start of the film. The two boys make a suicide pact agreeing that on the one year anniversary of the avalanche, they will kill themselves. The two spend their last year living life to the fullest. This takes the form of a list of "tasks", which they both must fulfill before dying.
The movie's screenplay is written by Brown, and deals with themes such as the generation gap, the conflicts that surround today's youngsters, suicide, crossing boundaries and how people are affected by tragedy. Brown has spoken of New Year's Day being prompted by the killing of James Bulger, in the sense of a storyline concerning two young people who are surrounded by grown-ups who have no idea about what they are doing.
Two teenage boys decide to live for one more year then commit suicide after their classmates are killed in a school tragedy. But they can only take their own lives after completing a mysterious series of tasks written in blood in "The Book Of Life".
Keywords: arson, avalanche, bank-robbery, gay-interest, independent-film, jumping-from-height, junkie, loss-of-friend, male-virgin, molotov-cocktail
I sit all dulled in a beautiful yellow haze
Setting my mind on a perpetual holiday
TV set shows may be everything that I need
Guess I'm not gonna get out of bed anytime this week
But I'll be home to new years day
Right now I am far away
But I'll be home to new years day
But I'll be home to new years day
Throw another year away
But I'll be home to new years day
The kids outside on the street playing stupid games
Seems they don't even noticed that the sky's turning
green again
??? behind my eyes is full of crooked lies
But you can yell ok I won't listen to a word you say
But I'll be home to new years day
Right now I am far away
But I'll be home to new years day
But I'll be home to new years day
Throw another year away
But I'll be home to new years day
But I'll be home to new years day
Right now I am far away
But I'll be home to new years day
But I'll be home to new years day
Throw another year away