Curl up to watch reel good New Year films

What better way to see in the New Year than curled up on the sofa in front of a movie? Most of us are still feeling festive, the mood is mellow, the tinsel still glitters, there’s still chocolates in the tin, turkey sandwiches in the fridge and booze in the bottle, writes Sue

Wilkinson.

With a DVD or streaming service that’s everything you need for New Year’s Eve and

New Year’s Day together.

Sleepless in Seattle and When Harry Met Sally are my favourites – funny, romantic and with great soundtracks.

Here I choose and share my seasonal recommendations for New Year viewing.

1

Sleepless in Seattle

Meg Ryan, Tom Hanks, Bill Pullman

A recently widowed man’s son calls a radio talk-show in an attempt to find his father a partner. References An Affair to Remember and has a great soundtrack.

2 Love Actually

Hugh Grant, Emma Thompson

Follows the lives of eight very different couples in dealing with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic festive month.

3

An American in Paris Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron

Three friends struggle to find work in Paris.

Things become more complicated when two of them fall in love with the same woman.

4 An Affair to Remember Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr

Taught Sleepless in Seattle everything it became. A couple falls in love and agrees to meet in six months at the Empire State Building – but will it happen?

Not just that scene but, at a New Year’s Eve party to the sound of Sinatra singing It Had to Be You, Harry declares “I love you” to his beloved Sally.

5 When Harry Met Sally Meg Ryan, Billy Crystal 6 Poseidon Adventure

Gene Hackman, Shelley Winters

The best of a spate of 1970s disaster movies. While the passengers are at a New Year’s Eve party, a giant wave hits their cruise ship and turns it upside down.

7 Are We There Yet? Ice Cube

To impress a foxy divorcee, ladies’ man Nick offers to take her children on an extended road trip, unaware of the torture he’s in for. It opens on New Year’s Eve.

8 While You Were Sleeping Sandra Bullock, Bill Pullman

A hopelessly romantic Chicago Transit Authority token collector is mistaken for the fiancée of a coma patient. New Year’s Eve is the catalyst for love.

9 High School Musical

Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens

A popular high-school athlete and an academically gifted girl get roles in the school musical and develop a friendship that threatens East High’s social order.

10

Ocean’s 11

Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin

Eleven friends plan to rob five Las Vegas casinos in one night ... New Year’s Eve. Other Ocean’s 11 movies are available but they are not as cool. Sorry, George Clooney!