200 Cigarettes (1999)
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Christina Ricci, Kate Hudson, Ben Affleck, Martha Plimpton, Janeane Garofalo
Screenwriter: Shana Larsen
Producer: Betsy Beers, David Gale, Van Toffler
Composer: Mark Mothersbaugh, Robert Mothersbaugh
DVD Info
Release:
Aug 17, 1999
DVD Features:
- Region 1 Encoding
- Keep Case
- Widescreen Anamorphic
- Interactive Menus
- Scene Selection
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Reviews
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
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.
If you find too many of these people boring, inconsequential or annoying, you're going to find the film has the same effect.
Garcia orchestrates her New Wave symphony deftly, making each character distinctive.
There's no sign of the writerly derring-do that is really essential to daisy-chain storytelling.
Like Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream," the story concludes that love makes fools of us all.
I did laugh a lot, and genuinely was interested in the various storylines, but I wanted them to be more interrelated.
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.
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