Joy is just around the corner when Susan Sarandon, Penelope Cruz, Paul Walker, and Alan Arkin fill out an all-star cast in this holiday classic.

Joy is just around the corner when Susan Sarandon, Penelope Cruz, Paul Walker, and Alan Arkin fill out an all-star cast in this holiday classic.

Joy is just around the corner when Susan Sarandon, Penelope Cruz, Paul Walker, and Alan Arkin fill out an all-star cast in this holiday classic.

Five New Yorkers come together on Christmas Eve, seeking a miracle.

Five New Yorkers come together on Christmas Eve, seeking a miracle.

A group of disparate characters look for understanding and compassion in the midst of a lonely holiday season in this comedy drama. Rose (Susan Sarandon) is a middle-aged divorc e whose mother is in the hospital with an advanced case of Alzheimer's disease; while Rose wants one more chance to tell her mother that she loves her, the woman doesn't even know who she is anymore. Mike (Paul Walker) is a police officer who has become the obsessive focus of an elderly waiter, Artie (Alan Arkin), who is convinced Mike is the reincarnation of his late wife. Meanwhile, Mike is engaged to marry the beautiful Nina (Pen lope Cruz), but he's so consumed with jealousy and suspicion that she's not sure if she can go through with the wedding. And Jules (Marcus Thomas) is a street hustler who has only one fond memory of Christmas -- ending up in an emergency room, where the staff was holding a party. Jules wants to relive the experience, and is even willing to injure himself to do so. Noel was the first directorial effort fr

Actor Chazz Palmienteri ('A Bronx Tale') makes his big-screen directorial debut with this modern-day Christmas fable about four New Yorkers (Susan Sarandon, Penelope Cruz, Paul Walker and Alan Arkin) whose paths cross in unexpected ways during the holiday season. Walker is Cruz's jealous boyfriend, Arkin thinks Walker is the reincarnation of his dead wife and Sarandon is a lonely woman who's trying to learn to take care of herself. -

Actor Chazz Palmienteri ('A Bronx Tale') makes his big-screen directorial debut with this modern-day Christmas fable about four New Yorkers (Susan Sarandon, Penelope Cruz, Paul Walker and Alan Arkin) whose paths cross in unexpected ways during the holiday season. Walker is Cruz's jealous boyfriend, Arkin thinks Walker is the reincarnation of his dead wife and Sarandon is a lonely woman who's trying to learn to take care of herself. -