200 Cigaretes (1999) *

Directed by Risa Bramon Garcia. With Ben Affleck, Christina Ricci and Courtney Love. Do you really want to see a dozen neurotic New Yorkers trying to decide which party to attend on New Year's eve? Or even trying to find (or keep) a date? This episodic, vaguely altmanesque pic has plenty of losers to ridicule. Not surprisingly, since with pick-up lines like "How do you like your eggs in the morning, scrambled or fertilized?", they don't score very often. It's quite funny, but also strangely unpleasant - something of a misantroPic.