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Submit Your ReviewHappy New Year is an Americanized remake of the 1974 French film of the same name. Peter Falk and Charles Durning play Nick and Charlie, a pair of seedy but suave jewel thieves. Preparing to rob the exclusive Florida jewelry store managed by Tom Courtenay, Nick and Charlie meticulously pre-plan ...more
MPAA Rating: PG | Year: 1987 | Running Time: 90 minutes
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It's hardly a masterpiece, but Happy New Year certainly deserved a better reception than it received upon its initial release. Happy is a heist caper comedy, and it's no classic, but it is an engaging little film whose modest charms will please many who stumble upon it late at night on TV or tucked away in the corner of their local video emporium. The screenplay to Happy is merely serviceable, but it does include a few imaginative assets. Chief among these is making the crooks in question not in ...more
- Peter Falk - Nick
- Charles Durning - Charlie
- Wendy Hughes - Carolyn Benedict, Antique Dealer
- Tom Courtenay - Edward Sanders, Jewelry Store manager
- Joan Copeland - Sunny Felix
- Ted Bartsch - Doorman
- Cloyce Morrow - Dinner Guest
- Ruben Rabasa - Maitre D'
- The Temptations
- Jackie Davis - Cabbie #1
- Sal Carollo - Frankie G
- Bruce Kirby - Taxi Driver
- Bonnie Timmermann
- Earleen Carey - Winston Sales Girl
- John G. Avildsen - Director
- Allan Ruban - Executive Producer
- Jerry Weintraub - Producer
- Warren Lane - Screenwriter
- Nancy Dowd - Screenwriter
- William Matthews - Art Director
- William J. Cassidy - Associate Producer
- Bonnie Timmermann - Casting
- Mary Lou Byrd - Costume Designer
- Jodie Lynne Tillen - Costume Designer
- Clifford C. Coleman - First Assistant Director
- Bruce Malmuth - Second Unit Director
- Jane Kurson - Editor
- Bill Conti - Composer (Music Score)
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