David Schwimmer and Courteney Cox in 'Friends' Warner Bros. / Courtesy: Everett Collection Share on Facebook Share on X Google Preferred Share to Flipboard Send an Email Show additional share options Share on Reddit Post a Comment Share on Whats App Share on Pinterest Share on LinkedIn Print the Article Share on Tumblr Movies and television shows have long had a fascination with New Year's Eve, promising big parties and falling in love with strangers as the clock strikes midnight. Resolutions have also played a big role in plots, whether inspiring characters to be better or sending them to fail miserably in whatever they hoped to change about themselves. From classic films like When Harry Met Sally and Bridget Jones's Diary to television favorites like Friends and The Office, New Year's Eve has been used to create some classic moments on screens both big and small. No matter your plans for ringing in the New Year, check out some of the best TV and movie moments revolving around Dec. 31. 'About a Boy' Image Credit: Universal/Courtesy Everett Collection The 2002 film, starring Hugh Grant, Rachel Weisz and Toni Collette, has a memorable New Year's scene when the two leads of the film meet at a party and set off a romance that is soon complicated by Will, played by Grant, lying that he has a son. 'About Time' Image Credit: Courtesy Murray Close/Universal/courtesy Everett Collection Domhnall Gleeson and Rachel McAdams star in the 2013 romantic comedy centered on a man who has the ability to time travel and attempts to change his past. By making changes, he hopes to improve his future. However, though he hopes time travel can help him win McAdams' Mary's heart, he learns there are things he's unable to control. 'The Age of Adaline' Image Credit: Courtesy Diyah Pera/Lionsgate/courtesy Everett Collection In the 2015 film, Blake Lively stars as a woman recognized as the first baby born in San Francisco on New Year's Day in 1908. After she faces a tragic car accident, her life is changed forever. After passing away from in a car accident, the woman is revived by lightning and begins living a life in which she remains 29 years old. After spending many years alone, Lively's character meets a man (played by Michiel Huisman) who impacts her new eternal life. 'Boogie Nights' Image Credit: New Line Cinema/Courtesy Everett Collection One of Boogie Nights' biggest scenes revolves around New Year's, when assistant director Little Bill Thompson, played by William H. Macy, walks in on his porn star wife having sex with another man. He kills the two and himself as the countdown to the new year is going, starting off a dark spiral for the other characters in the movie. 'Bridget Jones's Diary' Image Credit: Miramax / Courtesy Everett Collection Starring Renee Zellweger, Colin Firth and Hugh Grant, Bridget Jones's Diary is heavily centered around New Years', from Bridget (played by Zellweger) and Mark's (Firth) first meeting at a New Year's party to the role of New Year's resolutions in Bridget's life. 'Friends' Image Credit: Warner Bros. / Courtesy: Everett Collection Friends had a few different New Year's scenes across its 10-season run, focusing on who would kiss whom when the ball dropped, hiding Chandler and Monica's relationship and getting on TV for Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve. 'Happy New Year, Charlie Brown!' Image Credit: United Features Syndicate / Courtesy: Everett Collection This 1986 TV special shows Charlie Brown as he struggles to finish a book report over the holiday break so that he can attend a New Year's party with his friends. His crush, Little Red-Haired Girl, shows up at the party and dances with Linus while he's working on his homework, ruining his New Year's Eve. 'Holidate' Image Credit: Courtesy Steve Dietl/Netflix In this 2020 rom-com, holidays are an overarching theme as two strangers, Sloane (Emma Roberts) and Jackson (Luke Bracey) agree to be each other's platonic plus-ones for every event starting at New Year's Eve - their first "holidate" - all the way to Christmas. 'The Holiday' Image Credit: Courtesy Columbia Pictures/courtesy Everett Collection In the 2006 film from Nancy Meyers, Cameron Diaz and Kate Winslet swap houses for the holidays as they reel from their respective heartbreak and need for an escape. Though Diaz's character relocating to an English cottage and Winslet to a Hollywood mansion result in some adjustment, they both unexpectedly find themselves and love in time for the New Year. 'How I Met Your Mother' Image Credit: Monty Brinton/CBS/Courtesy Everett Collection In a season 1 episode of the hit series, the gang rents a limo on New Year's Eve with grand plans of party-hopping across the city. A number of things go wrong and split up the group, only to have them reunite before the clock strikes midnight. 'New Year's Eve' Image Credit: Andrew Schwartz/(C)Warner Bros. Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection 2011's star-studded New Year's Eve, with a cast including Halle Berry, Jessic