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200 Cigarettes (1999)

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Average Rating: 4.5/10
Reviews Counted: 59
Fresh: 17 | Rotten: 42

A clumsy and scattered comedy with a poorly executed script.

25

Average Rating: 3.9/10
Critic Reviews: 20
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 15

A clumsy and scattered comedy with a poorly executed script.

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Average Rating: 3/5
User Ratings: 31,252

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Movie Info

On New Year's Eve, no one wants to be alone. On this night in 1981, several different groups of young desperate people begin a journey from around New York City to a big party hosted by Monica (Martha Plimpton) and new friend Hillary (Catherine Kellner). As the hours pass and no one shows, Monica begins to unravel. She must bribe Hilary to stay with the promise of a clear shot at Monica's old boyfriend, Eric (Brian McCardie). Eric, at that moment is drinking in a nightclub with his new

R, 1 hr. 41 min.

Drama, Art House & International, Comedy

Shana Larsen

Aug 31, 1999

Paramount Pictures

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All Critics (71) | Top Critics (22) | Fresh (17) | Rotten (42) | DVD (5)

There's no sign of the writerly derring-do that is really essential to daisy-chain storytelling.

March 19, 2002 Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | Comment
Globe and Mail
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Hit-and-mostly-miss retro comedy.

May 11, 2001 Comment
Rolling Stone
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A light comedy, pure and simple (and hardly unfamiliar), but its makers sustain its energy through the unraveling of an intricate plot and bring to it a certain edge through a witty, sharp sense of observation.

February 14, 2001 Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | Comment
Los Angeles Times
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Everybody vamps and preens as if it were amateur night in SoHo, and a few of the performers, such as Kate Hudson, appear ill-used.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: New York Magazine | Comment
New York Magazine
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A twentysomething comedy with a brain-dead script, unflattering lighting and 16 performers in search of a scriptwriter.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Washington Post | Comment
Washington Post
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A succession of pointed little moments, nicely written by Shana Larsen and acted with comic assurance and sensitivity.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | Comment
San Francisco Chronicle
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Ensemble cast drinks and flirts through lame New Year's Eve.

December 21, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment
Common Sense Media

New Years Eve, 1981. Disco was on its way out, and the "New Wave" was pounding on the shore, bringing in a fresh tide of angst for a new decade . . . good for a laugh

March 20, 2003 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | Comment
eFilmCritic.com

In the hands of director Risa Bramon Garcia and writer Shana Larsen, their predicament is funny, sad and wistful as only young lust can be.

October 15, 2002 Full Review Source: Cincinnati Enquirer | Comment
Cincinnati Enquirer

An underrated, entertaining lark of a Tarantinoesque film.

August 2, 2002 Comment
Arizona Daily Star

If you find too many of these people boring, inconsequential or annoying, you're going to find the film has the same effect.

July 29, 2002 Comment
Jam! Movies

Oddly uninvolving and boring.

June 13, 2002 Full Review Source: Matinee Magazine | Comment
Matinee Magazine

Garcia orchestrates her New Wave symphony deftly, making each character distinctive.

June 5, 2002 Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | Comment
Boxoffice Magazine

Like Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream," the story concludes that love makes fools of us all.

October 22, 2001 Full Review Source: Laramie Movie Scope | Comment
Laramie Movie Scope
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Audience Reviews for 200 Cigarettes

This is my New Years movie! Like folks watch A Christmas Story or The Grinch for Christmas.... this is New Years for me!

February 21, 2008
Tomassgringo

Super Reviewer

three stars....

February 12, 2009
MizturY0da
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