200 Cigarettes

200 Cigarettes is a 1999 comedy-drama film that features an ensemble cast. The film also features paintings by Sally Davies. The film follows various plot arcs all occurring on New Year's Eve of 1981. The central character is Monica (Plimpton), who is throwing a big New Year bash and is desperately afraid no one will attend. As of early evening the only person to have arrived is her friend Hillary (Kellner). As she desperately tries to convince H... more

200 Cigarettes is a 1999 comedy-drama film that features an ensemble cast. The film also features paintings by Sally Davies. The film follows various plot arcs all occurring on New Year's Eve of 1981. The central character is Monica (Plimpton), who is throwing a big New Year bash and is desperately afraid no one will attend. As of early evening the only person to have arrived is her friend Hillary (Kellner). As she desperately tries to convince Hillary to stay, we learn about various other groupings of individuals who are all in one way or another on their way to the party. Long Island teens Val (Ricci) and Stephie (Hoffmann) have lied to their parents and said they are spending the night at each other's houses. In reality they are venturing into Manhattan alone in an attempt to find Monica's party (Monica is Val's cousin.) They managed to get lost in the seedy Alphabet City section of the borough and wander into a punk club where they meet Dave (Diaz) and Tom (Casey Affleck), two... less