One more for your list, Scott. The terribly overlooked Coen Brothers flick THE HUDSUCKER PROXY. As much as it's a totally daffy slapstick farce, it also addresses, quite touchingly, our collective choices and the passage of time and second chances.

"Y'know... for kids!"

Oh, and I forgot to add, one of the few films where the stroke of midnight on New Years Eve is a major plot point.

Additionally, the not-great-but-interesting STRANGE DAYS also uses New Years Eve to great dramatic advantage.

One of my favorite movies of all time, "Radio Days", ends with much of the cast on the roof of a building on New Year's Eve.