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Synopsis: On New Year's Eve, Wilson, a twenty-nine-year old guy has just had the worst year of his life. He emigrated to Los Angeles, has no date, no concrete plans and every intention of locking the doors and forgetting the last year ever happened. That is until his best friend, Jacob, browbeats him into posting a personal ad on Craig's List. When Vivian, a strong-willed woman hell bent on being with the right guy at the stroke of midnight responds, a chaotic, sometimes hilarious, sometimes touching journey through the black and white streets of L.A. begins. In the waning hours of the year, emotional vulnerability and bitterly honest humor seem to be waiting around every corner.
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Director(s): Alex Holdridge
Production: IFC First Take
  4 wins.
 
IMDB:
7.3
Metacritic:
64
Rotten Tomatoes:
86%
Year:
2007
90 min
Website
197 Views


I could have understood their pain.

And when I see that, you know,

I just wanna do something.

- Totally, (coughs)

- Are you smoking pot?

(coughs)

Yes,

While you're talking to your mother

on the phone?

Mom, you're just kind of talking

and talking,

- I just figured...

- That's terrible.

Oh, hey, Mom,

thank you so much,

I got the package,

It came yesterday,

- Are you sure this is what you want?

- Yes, Absolutely, I love her,

God, you two are so lucky

to have each other, I mean...

I just miss that sort of comfort

and connection,

Karen and I worked

at the same restaurant,

and we'd leave early

and go to the McDonald's drive-through,

and we'd just sit there, eating and just

sitting there, sharing that moment.

You know, just being there

with one another.

(no audio)

Yeah,

(Wilson) "Karen, I don't know

where to begin.

"It seems like yesterday

we were back in Texas.

"So much has happened over these three

months. Unfortunately, all bad for me.

"LA has been a disaster.

" A day after we broke up,

on my drive out here, I flipped my car.

"The tread on the tire separated,

and I lost control. The photo is attached.

"It was surreal.

There I was, standing in the middle of l- 10

"with everything I own flung across

the freeway, in the middle of Arizona.

"You were on the opposite side of the

world, all my friends were 16 hours east,

"and I was to move to a place

I had loathed my whole life - LA.

" And I arrived there without a car.

The script we all thought would sell

"has been delayed after my laptop

was stolen during a walk with my sister.

"Someone biked by

and took my computer

"I stupidly left it in my nephew 's stroller

a few feet away. "

(boy laughs) That's funny, right?

"Since then, I've been in a total daze

and bordering on suicide.

"I probably would have done it

if the bathtub here wasn't so filthy.

"I don't know what I'm doing here in LA.

"I miss you more than

I could possibly imagine.

"Just hearing your voice

would melt all my anxiety,

"as I would know that there's someone out

there that still cares whether I live or die.

"Karen, hope you're feeling well.

"Happy New Year.

Looks like my script's gonna sell.

"Finally I can pay off all my debts!

Now who knows what is next.

"I'd love to hear your voice sometime.

Warm thoughts... Wilson. "

(# "Mermaid" by Will Sheff)

(woman) What happened

with that woman?

- She died,

- Oh, gosh,

She absolutely died, You know why?

Because she was very old,

I didn't see her on Willard,

What is she, in her 80s?

(woman #2) But apart from that,

she was a b*tch, She was a b*tch,

Between the running of the water

and the showers, the bath,

I'm sorry, but it was just insane with her,

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Alex Holdridge

Alex Holdridge is an American writer/director currently based in Berlin, Germany.CURRENT PRODUCTIONS (2015) Meet Me in Montenegro, is a cynical romance in which he co-wrote and co-directed with the Norwegian filmmaker Linnea Saasen. They filmed in several countries (U.S., Germany, Montenegro, England, Macedonia) in stages between 2011 and 2015. It made its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2014 where it was acquired by The Orchard for release in north America in summer of 2015. The film was fully completed in March 2015 and has been making its European festival premiers in 2015 at Edinburgh International Film Festival, Munich Film Festival, Krakow's Off Camera International Festival of Independent Cinema, Tromsø International Film Festival, Dublin International Film Festival,. The U.S. and Canadian release in cinemas and VOD for the summer. The film Alex Holdridge and Linnea Saasen as well as Rupert Friend, Jennifer Ulrich. The film is fun globe-trotting romance inspired by Holdridge and Saasens real life exeprience. Frank and Cindy is a screenplay he co-wrote with GJ Echternkamp that is also in post-production and will premiere at the Los Angeles Film Festival in 2015. It was directed by Echternkamp and stars Rene Russo, Oliver Platt, Johnny Simmons, Jane Levy and Marc Maron. It is a fictional adaptation of the documentary 'Frank and Cindy, about the 80s pop band OXO and its base player, Frank and his life partner Cindys life, 30 years later. HISTORY Late 90's Austin Holdridge began making movies in the early 2000s in Austin, Texas. The film culture and life in Austin shaped his moviemaking. His first full length film, Wrong Numbers, was a low-budget comedy about two 18-year-old guys who set out to forget their girlfriend troubles and buy a six pack on the last night of school. The movie stars Scoot McNairy, Matt Bearden, Matt Pulliam, Kirsten Cunnington and David Pratt. It was co-written by Sam Merrick. It's a comedy of misadventures about these two best friends on a night from hell as they are stuck roaming Austin Texas with a car full of people they don't want to be with. The movie won the Audience Award at the Austin Film Festival in 2001 and Alex was hired to do a studio remake of the film. This remake never came to fruition, however. In 2003 Alex wrote and directed, Sexless. It won both the jury and audience awards at the 2003 South by Southwest Film Festival. It is a sex comedy about twenty-something couples' last month in Austin, Texas. Afeterwards, Alex moved to Los Angeles to pursue the studio remake of Wrong Numbers that never came to fruition. In 2008 Holdridge wrote, directed and produced In Search of a Midnight Kiss, a romantic comedy which was listed by the National Board of Review as one of the Top 10 Independent Films of 2008. Holdridge won the 2008 Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award for work on the film. The film starred Scoot McNairy and Sara Simmonds, and was the third collaboration with McNairy and the second with Simmonds. The film was shot by Austin cinematographer, Robert Murphy, who also worked on Wrong Numbers and went on to shoot Alexs next film, Meet Me in Montenegro. more…

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