It’s New Year’s Eve 1981, and every bohemian within a 50-mile radius is converging on New York City’s East Village neighborhood. The well-chosen cast includes Paul Rudd, Courtney Love, Ben and Casey Affleck, Janeane Garofalo, Christina Ricci, Gaby Hoffman, Jay Mohr, Martha Plimpton (as the party hostess who sleeps through her own epic soiree), Kate Hudson (in her first major film role, as a klutzy debutante), Dave Chappelle (as a disco-loving cabbie/Greek chorus), and Elvis Costello (as himself). For the eclectic ensemble, credit director Risa Bramon Garcia, who was a casting director before making her directing debut with this feature. The result is a delightful bit of double nostalgia, both for 1981, when the movie’s killer soundtrack was still current, and for 1999, when the sky still seemed the limit for the blossoming screen careers of singer Love and stand-up comic Chappelle.
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