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A saga spanning one New Year's Eve to the following New Year's Eve in the lives of the Stone sisters. Ava (Bonnie Bennett), a retired singer and her daughter Lana (Kristen Elizabeth) who is making the same mistakes she made as a young woman. Sidney (Christine Nicholson), a restless soul who can't stay in a relationship for more than a year. Vivian (Carol Miranda), the family caretaker who cannot take care of herself. Gina (Katherine Pappa), the career woman who puts work above her family and daughter (Savannah Swain). And Doris (Hazel Johnson), the matriarch of the clan, for whom this is her final year.

"...the cinematic feat that is YEAR shares with us captivating scenery, clouds of expression, the revolution of one full year, and the nuanced moments of decision in these characters lives. Based in Northern California and shot over the course of 372 days, YEAR is a truly independent, remarkably constructed, and exquisitely acted film NOT to be missed." (Alicia R. Perre-Dowd, San Francisco Independent Film Festival)

"writer-director Mike Carroll's debut fiction feature...is well-crafted -- quite impressively so given a purported minuscule budget -- and engrossing... Compact, fast-moving narrative... production values and tech contribs are solid, performances fully credible." (Dennis Harvey, Variety)?

Mike Carroll, filmmaker of "Year": "The filmmakers who inspired and influenced me the most were always the "hyphenates" -- the filmmakers who handled many of the jobs that are typically delegated on most films. Artists such as Claude Lelouch and Russ Meyer, writer-producer-director-cameraman-editor-distributors; Stanley Kubrick and Haskell Wexler, writer-producer-director-cameraman; David Lean, Michael Mann, writer-producer-director-editor. Claude Lelouch once said, "You wouldn't expect an artist to give his brush to someone else." When I set out to make my own film I chose to make it on

Year is a 2011 drama with a runtime of 1 hour and 49 minutes. It has received moderate reviews from critics and viewers, who have given it an IMDb score of 6.3.