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Movies to Watch on New Year’s Eve
“The Apartment” (1960): Encompassing a holiday season, director Billy Wilder’s great, Oscar-winning comedydrama culminates on New Year’s Eve … after upwardly mobile office drone C.C. Baxter (Jack Lemmon) has lent his shoulder to his crush, lovelorn elevator operator Fran Kubelik (Shirley MacLaine), to cry on. Without spilling too many beans, it can be said anyone who stays with the film will find its finale irresistible.
10:00 p.m. HALL Debbie Macomber’s Call Me Mrs. Miracle A new employee saves a department store in trouble during the Christmas season.
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8:00 a.m. HALL Angel in the Family An ailing man and his daughters experience a miracle when their late matriarch returns to spend Christmas with them. 10:30 a.m. EWTN Dana: Our Family Christmas Traditional customs of an old-fashioned Christmas. 1:00 p.m. EWTN San Juan Children’s Choir Presents: Siempre Navidad The joyful spirit of the holidays in Puerto Rico. 2:00 p.m. EWTN Urbi et Orbi: Message and Blessing Christmas From St. Peter’s Square in Vatican City. 4:00 p.m. HALL Once Upon a Christmas The daughter of Santa Claus vows to transform a single father and his spoiled children to prove that the spirit of Christmas exists. 4:30 p.m. EWTN Image of God Mr. Smith tells the children the story of Christmas.
“When Harry Met Sally …” (1989): One of the most popular New
“Entrapment” (1999):
Year’s Eve scenes in movie history caps director Rob Reiner and writer Nora Ephron’s cozy, entertaining comedy that poses whether friends – in this case, Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan’s title characters – can become lovers and still stay friends. And Reiner’s mother delivers the fall-out-of-your-chair line, “I’ll have what she’s having.”
If you want to dial back to the start of the current millennium, this classy heist tale offers recent nostalgia along with a terrific acting duo in Sean Connery and Catherine ZetaJones. She plays an insurance investigator out to catch the veteran thief he portrays, resulting in a literal high-wire act for them between Kuala Lumpur skyscrapers on New Year’s Eve.
5:00 p.m. EWTN Saints and Heroes Nicholas was still a young boy when he discovered the love of Jesus and the gift of giving that changed the world. 5:30 p.m. EWTN Living Right With Dr. Ray Clinical psychologist Dr. Ray Guarendi offers advice on parenting and marriage. 8:00 p.m. WRIC Happy New Year, Charlie Brown While other members of the Peanuts gang plan a holiday celebration, Charlie Brown struggles with “War and Peace”; a bonus cartoon is “She’s a Good Skate, Charlie Brown.” HALL Farewell Mr. Kringle A widowed writer for a magazine travels to the town of Mistletoe to meet a Santa Claus impersonator. 10:00 p.m. HALL The Most Wonderful Time of the Year A snowbound stranger brightens the holidays for a retired police officer and his niece. 11:30 p.m. EWTN Women of Grace Johnette Benkovic and her guests inform, instruct and inspire listeners with the truth of the Catholic Faith.
8:00 a.m. HALL The Most Wonderful Time of the Year A snowbound stranger brightens the holidays for a retired police officer and his niece. 11:00 a.m. EWTN Stories of Hymns The Church’s most revered songs of praise are an inspiration for the spiritual life. 4:00 p.m. HALL Twice Upon a Christmas When a widower proposes to Santa’s daughter, his children try to discover the truth about her past. 4:30 p.m. EWTN Legend of the Christmas Flower A boy’s dream of a sombrero leads to the true meaning of Christmas. 6:00 p.m. HALL Annie Claus Is Coming to Town As part of his master plan, an elf hires an actor to woo the daughter of Santa Claus. 6:30 p.m. EWTN A Star Shall Rise Raymond Burr stars in a tale about the birth of Christ. 8:00 p.m. HALL A Christmas Wish The owner of a diner helps a homeless woman and her children during the holidays.
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“New Year’s Eve” (2011): It didn’t meet box-office hopes – perhaps because it was released a couple of weeks before Christmas, rather than closer to the title holiday – but for an actual Dec. 31 viewing, enjoyment still is provided by director Garry Marshall and an all-star cast ranging from Robert De Niro and Hilary Swank to Lea Michele (“Glee”) and Jon Bon Jovi.
8:30 p.m. WRLH Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas When Manny convinces Sid that he is on the naughty list, Sid, Crash, Eddie and Peaches head to the North Pole to explain themselves to Santa Claus. 10:00 p.m. HALL Christmas Magic To gain entry to heaven, a woman must help a man and his young daughter.
DECEMBER 29 8:00 a.m. HALL Cancel Christmas Telling Santa that children have become too selfish and greedy, the board of directors gives him a month to teach two boys the meaning of giving, or else the holiday will be canceled. 10:00 a.m. HALL Christmas Magic To gain entry to heaven, a woman must help a man and his young daughter. 12:00 p.m. HALL Eloise at Christmastime A 6-yearold girl tries to reunite a young woman with a former boyfriend before she marries another. 2:00 p.m. EWTN Joyful Hour Actor Pat O’Brien and his family pray the rosary.
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