How to Make the Cruelest Month

How to Make the Cruelest Month
Directed byKip Koenig
Written byKip Koenig
Produced byAlison Dickey
Mark Lipson
StarringClea DuVall
Gabriel Mann
Marianne Jean-Baptiste
Mary Kay Place
Dennis Haysbert
CinematographyJulian Whatley
Edited byChris Figler
Music byJeff Martin
Release date
  • January 16, 1998 (1998-01-16) (Sundance)
Running time
99 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

How to Make the Cruelest Month is a 1998 comedy film written and directed by Kip Koenig and starring Clea DuVall. The story centers on Bell, a young woman who resolves to accomplish her New Year’s resolutions—to quit smoking and to find love—before the end of December.