The New Year
Jul. 30th, 2010 05:24 am
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Lance Brannon and Trieste Kelly Dunn in “The New Year.”
Serioius Adulthood Waiting to Happen
By ANDY WEBSTER
Published: July 29, 2010
Sunny is a former high school honors student who dropped out of college a year or so ago to tend her father, who’s dying of cancer. Now she’s working at a bowling alley in Pensacola, Fla.; dating her well-meaning but unambitious boyfriend, Neal; hanging with her best friend, Amy, who is rearing a baby after a shotgun marriage to the child’s dim father; and flirting with her former school rival, Isaac, an aspiring comedian down from New York City for the holidays. She’s bored out of her mind. More