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200 Cigarettes is a 1999 comedy-drama film that starred Ben Affleck, Elvis Costello, Kate Hudson, Jay Mohr, Christina Ricci, Paul Rudd, Martha Plimpton, Casey Affleck, Courtney Love, Dave Chappelle, Janeane Garofalo, Guillermo Díaz, Gaby Hoffmann, Catherine Kellner, Brian McCardie, Nicole Parker and Angela Featherstone, and features paintings by Sally Davies. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 403 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (508 × 755 pixels, file size: 87 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Poster for 200 Cigarettes No free equivalent exists that would effectively identify the articles subject. ...
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Plot Summary 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 that she 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. For other articles with similar names, see New Year (disambiguation). ...
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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 and wander into a punk club where they meet Dave (Diaz) and Tom (Casey Affleck) two dirty punks who have a "package" they need to deliver. The foursome wanders around town attempting to get rid of this mysterious delivery so they can head on to the party. This article is about the island in New York State. ...
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Meanwhile the ditzy Cindy (Hudson) meets up with the paranoid Jack (Mohr) for a dinner date. The two had a one-night stand the night before and it is revealed that Jack was Cindy's first sexual experience. Jack becomes obsessively fascinated with this fact, something that at first embarrassed Cindy but later infuriates her. After a long and unproductive date (during which Cindy becomes more and more disheveled by way of repeated unfortunate accidents) Cindy leaves Jack in a cloud of fury. It seems that he's not interested in Cindy, he's only interested in why he was her "first".
While all of this is going on, Lucy (Love) has met up with her best friend Kevin (Rudd) to celebrate the New Year. Alternating between a bar (where they quickly become drunk) and a diner, the two begin to reveal stronger-than-friendship feelings and agree to have sex with one another that evening. (A superstition that permeates all of the story lines is that if one does not have sex on New Year's Eve they will be forcibly celibate for the entire oncoming year.) Unfortunately Kevin is still hung up on feminist ex-girlfriend, Ellie (Garofalo), who just happens to walk in on Kevin and Lucy mid-coitus in a restroom stall. Eventually Kevin and Lucy get into a fight because Lucy has real feelings for Kevin, whereas Kevin's intentions are unclear. (Lucy also manages to flirt up a bartender, played by Ben Affleck, who she tells about Monica's party.)
As if this weren't enough to follow, in the same bar as Lucy and Kevin are Bridget (Parker) Caitlyn (Featherstone) and Eric (McCardie). Eric and Bridget are in a relationship but during a moment when Eric leaves the table Bridget confesses to Caitlyn that she is going to break up with him because he is extremely bad in bed. (This after Caitlyn has slipped him her number in a matchbook which she quickly schemes to retrieve.) After being ditched on a big holiday, Eric retreats to Monica's party where he, now much later in the evening, is officially only the second guest to show.
As Monica nears a nervous breakdown she must now also deal with her paranoid ex-boyfriend and confess to him that, yes, he is lousy in the sack. Hillary returns (after having bailed on the dead-end party) only to find a shirtless and vulnerable Eric pitying himself. The two begin to flirt as Monica gets drunk on wine and passes out in her kitchen.
What follows is a montage of all of the characters arriving in various formations. In no particular order they are: Jack, Lucy, Tom, Caitlyn, Ellie, Stephie, Cindy, Lucy, Bridget, Monica, Val, Kevin and the nameless Bartender. (Already there are Hillary and Eric.) Also in attendance is the "Disco Cabbie" (Chappelle), a minor character who has coincidentally been the driver that has taken all of our characters around town throughout the evening.
We cut to a shot of Monica waking up in the morning to a destroyed apartment. There are passed out people on the ground, including Stephie who tells her what a big hit her party was. Monica is thrilled (even though she missed it all), especially when she finds out that her crush Elvis Costello showed up. As the film finishes we see whom everyone has ended up with for their big sexual liaison of the evening, and it is not what we might have expected. Elvis Costello (born Declan Patrick McManus August 25, 1954) is an English musician, singer, and songwriter. ...
Val has ended up with Jack; Caitlyn and the cab driver; Bridget with the bartender; Tom with Cindy; Ellie with Elvis; Hillary with Eric; and Kevin with Lucy. (Dave was left passed out on a couch somewhere by the East River.) The final montage shows Polaroids of the party in question, mostly featuring the unconscious Monica being propped up by her party guests and who ends up together. An instant camera is a type of camera with self-developing film. ...
Release The film received generally negative reviews, and grossed $6.8 million in the United States before video release.
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