in a 1998 issue of premiere magazine and a female producer on this film tell a writer and it a romantic comedy . it let the girl get the guy . it adorable . it gon na be great . all right and so what do we get . a bunch of loser swear and smoking . that producer must have be a flunky at mtv who get a break ( and now hopefully she busy be adorable some place else ) . this collection of wacky character and all try to make their way to the same 1981 new year eve party and have nothing fresh to say . the script seem to be write a an inside joke and but it hard to laugh when the actor on screen be humiliate ( and in such a lifeless vacuum ) . the ashtray be overflow and but the dialogue be stilted and the scenario be strangely aloof and cold . martha plimpton play the unfortunate girl give the party and one feel sorry for the performer and not the character . plimpton be a young actress who be difficult to cast while she tough and direct and but her toughness isn not engage and her direct and no nonsense manner isn not particularly feminine or fetch . janeane garofalo have some sparkle and but the teaming of an annoy courtney love and an even more annoying paul rudd doesn not pay off . other party poopers include ben affleck and casey affleck and kate hudson and gaby hoffmann and christina ricci all portray people with low iq . half from .