Garry Marshall is back in the director's chair this week with his new movie New Year's Eve, which comes hot off the heels of the success of Valentine's Day.
Yes New Year's Eve looks set to be the feel good movie of the festive period as Marshall has gathered together one hell of an impressive cast that includes Halle Berry, Ashton Kutcher, Jessica Biel, Robert De Niro and Michelle Pfeiffer.
Marshall has enjoyed a movie career that has spanned fifty years with a whole host of great movies under his belt.
He kicked off a career as a writer, first working for comics before making the movie to LA to work in TV.
He moved between writing and producing as well as a bit of acting throughout the sixties seventies before making the transition into filmmaking.
His directorial debut came in 1982 with comedy Young Doctors in Love before going on to make The Flamingo Kid.
By the late eighties he had a hit on his hand with Beaches, which starred Bette Midler and Barbara Hershey before following that up with the movie that he is best known for.
Of course I am talking about Pretty Woman, a movie which launched the career of Julia Roberts, and is just as loved today as it was when it was released just over twenty years ago - yes it really is that long!
He teamed up with two more superstars, in the form of Michelle Pfeiffer and Al Pacino, for his next project Frankie and Johnny - a personal fave - a very touching romantic comedy.
He would reunite with Roberts and Gere at the end of the decade for Runaway Bride - which went on to be a global comedy smash.
He stuck with comedy in the noughties as he helped launch the career of another young actress, Anne Hathaway, in The Princess Diaries - they would team up again three years later for the sequel.
Marshall took a three year hiatus before retuning with Georgia Rule before taking another three year break.
He was back in 2010 with Valentine's Day, one of the most fun in that genre of the year, as Hathaway teamed up with Ashton Kutcher, Jennifer Garner, Jamie Foxx and Emma Roberts.
And this week he does it all again with New Year's Eve.
New Year’s Eve celebrates love, hope, forgiveness, second chances and fresh starts, with intertwining stories told amidst the pulse and promise of New York City on the most dazzling night of the year.
New Year's Eve is out now
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