| Scarfies (1999) | Willa O'Neill, Ashleigh Seagar "Both female leads smoke once or twice in this well-done New Zealand thriller, in which five young 20-somethings find a huge cache of pot, sell it, then get into a potentially-deadly battle with the original owner. O'Neil's main scene comes early, as she smokes what's supposed to be pot, with a nice close-up as she finishes a thick mainly-nose exhale. Seagar seems opposed to smoking at first, but then smokes what seems to be a cigarette quite well later in the film. There are also one or two scenes in which one of them smokes but it's too dark and/or they're partially hooded so it's hard to tell which one it is and what she's smoking. Overall, a few good if quick smoking scenes in an unusually engrossing character study and horror film." "Seagar's character's smoking is used as a plot device; in an early scene she complains about another character's smoking, but later seems to have developed a habit of her own. Two nice scenes, one close-up when she has to tear a hole in a mask she's wearing to have a cigarette, and later she is seen smoking nervously in the street."
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