Movie
Happy New Year
Drama film with a runtime of 104 minutes, released in 2011. Presented in English.
At a Glance
Synopsis
A soldier returns home from war to deal with his own private battles in this independent drama. Sgt. Cole Lewis (Michael Cuomo) served tours of duty in Afghanistan and Iraq before injuries left him paralyzed from the waist down and with extensive facial scars. Lewis is sent to a VA hospital, but since the other wards are full, he ends up bunking with the patients in the psychiatric unit. Lewis soon finds himself verbally sparring with Dr. Martinez (Jose Yenque), and his willingness to stand up to authority earns him many friends on the ward, while he also becomes infatuated with Lisa (Monique Gabriela Curnen), a pretty nurse who works at the hospital. But while Lewis is eager to deal with his physical injuries, he avoids confronting the emotional trauma that has thrown him into cycles of depression and anxiety, and in time he's forced to come to term with what happened on the day he was injured. Writer and director K. Lorrel Manning adapted Happy New Year from his own one-act play, which he earlier turned into a short film; the feature had its world premiere at the 2011 South by Southwest Film Festival.
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Cast
- Michael Cuomo
- J.D. Williams
- Monique Gabriela Curnen
- José Yenque
- David Fonteno
- Wilmer Calderon
- Will Rogers
- Noah Mills
- Seth Barrish
- John Leighton
- Frank Harts
- Tina Sloan
- Alan Dale
- Karl Jacob
- Joseph Harrell
- Terrence Gray
- Larry Mitchell
- Miles Solay
- Anne Girard
- Shelley Bennett
- Teresa Stephenson
- Hunter Emery
- Chris Barber
- Vandal Truong
- Latrice Martin
- Patricia Alexandro
- Patrick Blumer
- Ankara Martinez
- Cheri Haines
- Francis Cooper
- Dan Kaplan
- Selena Johnson
- John J. Palomino
- Vega
- Joseph Marcello
- Josh Mendelow
- Taylor Ruckel
- Emilio Savone
- Thomas Reardon
- Cher Santiago
- Maurice Clemons
- Sarah Babb
- Nathan Mirsky
- Stephanie Wise
- Kelly Diaz
- Larry Mitchell
- Joseph Harrell
- Heather Carr
- Jason Diamond
- Jenny Rose Costuros
- Friday Savathphuone
- Fury Young
- Jonathan Demuth
- Iain Smith
- Joe Rudge
- Chad Renfroe
- William Miller
- Mike Scotti
- Andreas Typaldos
- Ian Moore
- Carolyn Burns
- Marianna Ludensky
- K. Lorrel Manning
- Gabriel Fortoul
- Jason Friedman-Mendez
- Chansopheak Tong
- Adrienne Stern
- Todd Graff
- Allen Bain
- Carlos Gonzalez
- Josh Zeman
- Allan Zaleski
- Renee Typaldos
- Victoria Hay
- Whitney Arcaro
- Terrence Gray
- Ed Gately
- Ron Bochar
- Phil Cuomo
- Darlene Cuomo
- David Ross
- Darrin Hallinan
- Brian Fleischman
- Robert Getreu
- Nina Berman
- Grayson Ross
- Tracy Utley
- Soopum Sohn
- Michael Prall
- Jill Paget
- Margaret Cuomo
- Chad Birmingham
- Stephanie Wise
- Mike Scotti
- Richard Cuomo
- Aquiles Conde
