Happy New Year is a 1987 film starring Peter Falk, directed by John G. Avildsen. The screenplay was written by Warren Lane, based on the French film La bonne anne. The director of the French film, Claude Lelouch, has a cameo as a man on a train.
Nick and Charlie, a couple of aging thieves looking for a last score before they retire, come to ritzy Palm Beach, Florida, where they have an elaborate scheme to rob a Harry Winston jewelry store.The shop is well guarded and has hightech security. Its manager, Edward, welcomes an elderly customer seeking an expensive gift for a terminally ill wife. The eagertoplease Edward has no idea that this old gentleman is actually a middleaged criminal, Nick, in disguise. ........
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