The 31 Best New Year’s Eve Movies for Ringing in 2023

Sandra Bullock’s Lucy saves the life of her secret crush Peter just before Christmas. After being mistaken for Peter’s fiancé, Lucy spends the holidays with his family while he lies in a coma. But it’s on New Year’s Eve that Peter awakes and Lucy must face her pre-holiday fibs—and an attraction to Peter’s brother, Jack.

Can’t Buy Me Love (1987)

Often forgotten in the discussion of ‘80s teen movies, Patrick Dempsey stars as Ronald Miller, a far-from-McDreamy outcast who enlists Cindy Mancini (Amanda Peterson), the most popular girl in his high school to pretend to date him, thus elevating his social status. The ruse gets revealed to their classmates, however, during a pivotal New Year’s Eve party. 

New Year’s Eve (2011)

What would this list be without its namesake film? This 2011 ensemble comedy from the late Garry Marshall is far from a critical darling, but it does cram as many New Year-related activities into two hours as humanly possible.

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