My best friend loved this movie; so I rented it

Rating: 1/10 (16 February 2006)

and agree with most of the negative reviews. In fairness, I tried to give the film a chance, and watched it more than once.
It isn't really the cast that ruins the non-existent script (was this ad-lib?; seems to be). Although one embarrassingly amateurish scene with Neve Campbell trying to sound like a New Yorker; "waitress a cup of cawfeeee...." like a teenager would even get waited on with that attitude; more likely she would have the coffee thrown in her face! Directed by Mark Christopher, I will have to read his bio, I doubt he has spent much time living or working in NYC.
The cast tries their best; Salma Hayek; Ryan Phillipe (although he is a bit too naive at first) Mike Myers does look like Rubell(horribly so) and Sela Ward is attractive and vacuous. We also see the usual inferences to Andy Warhol, Princess Grace, etc.
The real problem is, why do we care?. The first thing any writer or director must do is capture the INTEREST of the audience. We cannot care about these empty, coke-snorting characters, because they are one-dimensional. Overall, that is not the fault of the actor. The writer and director should oversee what they are projecting; and whether it does or doesn't work. This doesn't.
Even "Boogie Nghts" at least had Philip Seymour Hoffman, an excellent actor. Rent that film, don't bother to watch this.