"[Kirshner] one really good scene with close-ups of her lighting up, then taking a drag and exhaling. In another scene, she takes a few hits off a joint, then goes to light a cigarette but the film cuts away. Finally, there's a scene where she walks into a Halloween party wearing black wings sporting a cigarette. You don't see her drag, but there's the end of an exhale."
"[Monroe] smokes constantly through the first half and sporadically thereafter with numerous backlit nose-mouth exhales in close-up!"
"[True] also smokes in several scenes"
"Lots of smoking in this one. Monroe smokes throughout, including nose exhales. True has a couple of great exhales, one in extreme closeup. Kirshner has a couple of decent exhales in closeup. Most of them smoke pot too, and there is ambient smoking in party sequences. If the photography had been a little better, I'd call it excellent. Definitely worth a look."
"[Swain] Has one scene where she's just holding a cigarette but takes no visible drags from it."
"[Monroe] smokes pot in the bathtub"
Other references to this movie:
Mia Kirshner - Info - video, New Best Friend (2002), youtube, c. '02
Meredith Monroe - Proof - no - "Meredith is not a smoker; I made her smoke for this part.", director's commentary, New Best Friend (2002) DVD
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