200 Cigarettes

Although apparently set on New Year's Eve 1981, numerous automobile designs that were introduced well after 1981 are visible in various shots.

While the two girls from Lake Ronkonkoma say they need to catch the last train, and the trains run 24/7, they are using that as an exit line.

When Caitlyn and Bridget are talking to the bartender (when he tells them he's a law student) Bridget's straps switch from on her shoulders and off her shoulders.

In the taxicab, the reflected light from the disco ball appears to be spinning in a different direction when we see the passengers from when the driver is shown.

The beer that the punk kids offer to Val and her friend is Miller Genuine Draft, a brand of beer that was not introduced until well after 1981.

In the taxi cab when the taxi driver is talking to the two women looking for dates, the lights from the disco ball are rotating one way on the women and then in the next shot, it is seen rotating the other way on the taxi driver.

The word "yuppie" first appeared in print in March 1983 and didn't become commonplace until after the publication of "The Yuppie Handbook" later that year.

Two characters in 1981 describe the law student/bartender as a "yuppie".

As Monica is putting the needle on an Elvis Costello record, there are two albums propped up against the wall behind the turntable"My Aim is True" and "Armed Forces".

In the next shot, they are gone.

In one of the club scenes, a patch on a dancers jacket can be seen briefly on the left side of the screen.

This is an "Anti-You" O.

Symptoms patch.

The OJ Symptoms were a punk band in the mid '90s.

When Val and Stephie cross from Avenue A to Avenue B they are on Avenue B and 9th.

There is no 9th Street between A and B.

Tompkins Square Park covers A to B between 7th and 10th Streets.

This movie is set during New Years in the dead of winter, yet there is no snow, the people's breath is not visible, and people are not dressed at all for winter weather.

200 Cigarettes focuses on a couple with evident sexual tension, two lost teenagers who wind up in a punk-rock club searching for a new years party, a ditz dating a neurotic idiot, a flirtatious bartender, a smooth-talking cab driver, and several others as they spend the last night of 1981 attempting to find love, answers to their questions, and acceptance in the tumultuous setting that is the 1980's decade.Despite its classification as a campy party-romp, I wish more characters actually did some partying.

On a presumably warm New Year's Eve in New York City, vacuous young adults ring out 1981 and ring in 1982 by heading to a spacious Manhattan apartment – and, then they all copulate. There is an all-star cast, alphabetically led by Affleck brothers Ben & Casey without the ampersand, their names form an unrelated TV series from the 1960s.

I can't really find anything good to say about this movie, so im not going to say much. its hard for me to understand how anyone could like this movie.

Loved this movie. I actually wasn't sure the first time when i saw this in or about 2001 but the it pulled me back in...

One of the best comedies I've ever seen. What a cast, what a script, amazing score and talented editing.

It's my best new year, though I was born in 1982. I wish I had this party to have.

200 Cigarettes is described as an episodic film. It follows around a number of people on New Years Eve of 1981 and climaxes at one huge party.

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.

I was disappointed- I thought this looked like a very good movie but I was wrong. Lucy (Courtney Love) and Val (Christina Ricci) weren't the best actors for the movie and it should have never been made.