200 Cigarettes/Sidewalks of New York

DVD FEATURES:

• Region: 1
• Number of Discs: 1
• Screen: Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV
• Audio: Dolby Digital Stereo

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

• Cast:

  
       Ben Affleck - Bartender
       Casey Affleck - Tom
       Dave Chappelle - Disco Cabbie
       Guillermo Diaz - Dave
       Angela Featherstone - Caitlyn
       Brittany Murphy - Ashley
       Gaby Hoffmann - Stephie
       Kate Hudson - Cindy
       Catherine Kellner - Hilary
       Callie Thorne - Sue
       Aida Turturro - Shari
       Jay Mohr - Jack
       Nicole Ari Parker - Bridget
       Martha Plimpton - Monica
       Christina Ricci - Val
       Paul Rudd - Kevin
       Elvis Costello - Costello, Elvis

• Director:

  Risa Bramon Garcia, Edward Burns

• Producer:

  Betsy Beers, Van Toffler, David Gale, Edward Burns, Margot Bridger

• Screenwriter:

  Shana Larsen, Edward Burns

• Cinematographer:

  Frank Prinzi

• Composer (Music Score):

  Mark Mothersbaugh

• Musical Direction/Supervision:

  Randall Poster

• Composer (Music Score):

  Robert Mothersbaugh

• Editor:

  Lisa Churgin, David Greenwald

• Production Designer:

  Ina Mayhew

• Art Director:

  Judy Rhee

• Co-producer:

  Andre Lamal, Steven L. Bernstein, Cecilia Kate Roque, Frank Prinzi, Richard Patrick

• Executive Producer:

  Tom Rosenberg, Sigurjon Sighvatsson, Ted Tannenbaum

• Set Designer:

  Paul Weathered

• Costume Designer:

  Susan Lyall, Catherine Marie Thomas

• Sound/Sound Designer:

  Scott Breindel, Mathew Price

• First Assistant Director:

  Vebe Borge, Richard Patrick

• Casting:

  Deborah Aquila, Sarah Halley-Finn, Laura Rosenthal

• Second Unit Director Of Photogra:

  John Thomas

REVIEW:

• Edward Burns has long been a devotee -- some would say shameless imitator -- of the films of Woody Allen, and Sidewalks of New York may be his most fervid homage to Allen yet, as well as his most unabashed valentine to New York City. But where he crucially misinterprets Allen is in the tone, which is far nastier than the writer-producer-director-star probably means it to be. The result is a film that can be downright unpleasant to watch, laced with aggressive f-words and angry characters. Of course Burns' dialogue is not at Allen's level, but where it's most noticeable is the humor, which goes for the mean-spirited embarrassments rather than the harmlessly neurotic ones that populate Allen's films. That the central six characters would treat each other with such casual disdain may be keeping with reality. But Burns is a romantic and an optimist at heart, so it's inconsistent with his outlook -- not to mention cruel on his romantic comedy target audience -- to provide only dubious outcomes and lesser evils for viewers to cheer. Burns insists on casting himself as the default good guy, because he imagines that his unpretentious regular Joe from Queens (with GQ good looks) is the ideal condition of the modern twentysomething. But Burns plays -- or rather, reads the lines of -- this character in each of his films, and it's just another deceptively insidious type. Of the hip cast, Brittany Murphy comes off best as a goofy waitress waffling between a philandering dentist (Stanley Tucci) and a fawning doorman (David Krumholtz, doing his best Woody impersonation). That any self-respecting documentary crew would focus a project on these vapid lives might be Burns' greatest self-deception. ~ Derek Armstrong, Rovi