200 Cigarettes (1999)

Let's be realistic.

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

I absolutely adore the atmosphere of the movie, the plot, cast, everything is fun! this movie makes me feel happy and really lifts the mood for living. it is not the one to be in the category of the ''must see'' all time classic masterpieces, and that's why I can't give it 10 stars, because this is my personal girlish opinion, but for the category of small, everyday movies, I certainly credit this movie as for ever favorite.

200 Cigarettes (1999): Dir: Risa Bramon Garcia / Cast: Christina Ricci, Courtney Love, Dave Chappelle, Casey Affleck, Martha Plimpton: Bringing back memories of "Bette Davis Eyes" and "Tainted Love", which graced the music scene in 1981, which is where this film is set. It is New Years Eve 1981 where girls wonder the street in search of the big party. This is in fact a party that no one has shown up to and the hostess is literally counting the minutes. There is a virgin experiencing sex, a guy who spends the evening complaining about the women who dumped him, a bartender who constantly gets stood up. The energy is there in the setup and director Risa Bramon Garcia follows each individual about interesting locations and situations. It is basically a series of subplots with an ending where everybody seems to wake up with somebody. Great ensemble cast including Christina Ricci who searches for the party. Courtney Love celebrates her friend's birthday before countering his complaints with sex. Dave Chappelle plays a cab driver who sees all and is the film's observer. Casey Affleck mourns over broken relationships. Martha Plimpton plans a big party but is disappointed when only one person appears while others form the other subplots. It relates to the teenage fearless persona where actions are believed to have no consequences. Entertaining film right down to the last cigarette. Score: 7 / 10

this is one of my all-time favorite movies; as evidenced by my review history, I am not a compulsive reviewer, but decided that if one more movie deserves my shout-out it is this low-profile and vastly underrated effort so I dredged up my registration information which I hadn't used in years; I remember stumbling upon the movie at my local home video rental store nine years ago; I immediately fell in love with this star-jammed vehicle that effortlessly manages to be stridently observant and yet retain a light and joyfully irrelevant touch; some of the reviewers complain that its crowded story-lines don't allow for fully-fledged characters but fail to see that it's one of the successful wink-wink aspects of the movie: most of the protagonists ARE fully-fledged, it's just that there just so much to their character! They are either shallow/vapid people or one-track minds desperate to score before the last hours of the old year ring out; both types can be sketched with a few confident strokes! for instance, just listening in on the bathroom conversation of Caitlin and Bridget you get all the insight into their character that you need to know perfectly well where they come from and what is their motivation; come on, given the lightweight subject matter I don't see how you can expect a 162-minute English patient-calibre backstory; you might ask then why waste time on a movie about shallow people or people obsessed with hosting the perfect party? because shallow plus zero self-awareness plus NYC art-scene types equals funny; being so caught up in party dip and New Year's decoration that it leads up to existential drama and queasiness is also hilarious in my book; and 200 cigarettes serves up just that sort of delightful cinematic entertainment; not to mention that it has one of my all-time favorite one-liners: "I DARE you to f*** me!"

I haven't seen this movie since it was relatively new, but I remember it was fairly enjoyable. It wasn't flat out hilarious, but it had its moments. The main reason I'm writing this is because I read another review that had a glaring inaccuracy in it: IT WASN'T KATE HUDSON WHO THREW THE PARTY! IT WAS MARTHA PLIMPTON! I don't know why, but it really bothers me when someone bothers to write a review and then gets their facts all screwed up. Well, there are a lot of familiar faces in this movie and it's worth at least one viewing, especially if you like movies set in the 80's. It's a helluva lot better than the atrocious "The Wedding Singer".