Happy New Year

Director: K. Lorrel Manning

Overview

A soldier returns home from war to deal with his own private battles in this independent drama. Sgt. Cole Lewis (Michael Cuomo) served tours of duty in Afghanistan and Iraq before injuries left him paralyzed from the waist down and with extensive facial scars. Lewis is sent to a VA hospital, but since the other wards are full, he ends up bunking with the patients in the psychiatric unit. Lewis soon finds himself verbally sparring with Dr. Martinez (Jose Yenque), and his willingness to stand up to authority earns him many friends on the ward, while he also becomes infatuated with Lisa (Monique Gabriela Curnen), a pretty nurse who works at the hospital. But while Lewis is eager to deal with his physical injuries, he avoids confronting the emotional trauma that has thrown him into cycles of depression and anxiety, and in time he's forced to come to term with what happened on the day he was injured. Writer and director K. Lorrel Manning adapted Happy New Year from his own one-act play, which he earlier turned into a short film; the feature had its world premiere at the 2011 South by Southwest Film Festival.

Product Details

Release Date:	12/17/2013
UPC:	0696859305030
Original Release:	2011
Rating:	NR
Source:	Apprehensive Films
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Time:	1:45:00
Sales rank:	68,203

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Michael Cuomo	Staff Sgt. Cole Lewis
J.D. Williams	Jerome
Monique Gabriela Curnen	Lisa
Jose Yenque	Martinez
David Fonteno	Gunny D.
Wilmer Calderon	Santiago
Will Rogers	Danny
Noah Mills	Looch
Seth Barrish	Dr. Keith
John Leighton	Jesus
Frank Harts	Dex
Tina Sloan	Grace
Alan Dale	Bill
Karl Jacob	Brian
Joseph Harrell	Joe Wallace
Terrence Gray	Senator Charles
Larry Mitchell	Brant
Miles Solay	Liam
Anne Girard	Gina
Shelley Bennett	Sheila
Teresa Stephenson	Teresa
Hunter Emery	Johnson
Chris Barber	Barnes
Vandal Truong	Luc
Latrice Martin	Rita
Patricia Alexandro	Anesthesiologist
Patrick Blumer	ICU Nurse
Ankara Martinez	Cocktail Waitress
Cheri Haines	Nurse
Francis Cooper	Orderly #1
Dan Kaplan	Orderly #2
Selena Johnson	Guard
John J. Palomino	Veteran in Gym
Vega	Bouncer
Joseph Marcello	Stripclub Announcer
Josh Mendelow	Bar Patron
Taylor Ruckel	Bar Patron
Emilio Savone	Bar Patron
Thomas Reardon	Antwone Dinsley (TV Talkshow Host0
Cher Santiago	Tina (TV Talkshow Guest)
Maurice Clemons	Marcus (TV Talkshow Guest)
Sarah Babb	Natalie (TV Talkshow Guest)
Nathan Mirsky	Looch's Son
Stephanie Wise	Woman in Crack Den
Mike Scotti	Marine Radio Voice
Victoria Hay	British Newscast Voiceover

Technical Credits

K. Lorrel Manning	Director,Producer,Screenwriter
Whitney Arcaro	Executive Producer
Paul Brill	Score Composer
Heather Carr	Art Director
Phil Cuomo	Executive Producer
Margaret Cuomo	Executive Producer
Richard Cuomo	Executive Producer
Darlene Cuomo	Executive Producer
Michael Cuomo	Producer
Kelly Diaz	Art Director
Terrence Gray	Executive Producer
Joseph Harrell	Associate Producer
Victoria Hay	Producer
Karl Jacob	Producer
William Miller	Editor
Larry Mitchell	Associate Producer
Ian Moore	Co-producer
Michael Prall	Asst. Director
Joe Rudge	Musical Direction/Supervision
Mike Scotti	Associate Producer
Iain Smith	Executive Producer
Soopum Sohn	Cinematographer
Tom Stein	Producer
Stephanie Wise	Makeup
Allan Zaleski	Sound/Sound Designer