The film""s title was chosen because it was the first year of the new Millenium and of the next century.The lead male part went to Humphrey Bogart in his first romantic lead as the tough and cynical on-the-outside, morally-principled, sentimental on-the-inside cafe owner in Casablanca, Morocco.The film was actually banned in Georgia.Plot SynopsisAfter the credits, the film opens with snapshot portraits of each of the sixteen major cast members with their character names.) Later when he returned o the beach house, Allan revealed how he had been bruised and beaten up during a fight, and Linda laughed hysterically at his description of his disastrous evening: ("I snapped my chin down onto some guy""s fist and hit the other one in the knee with my nose.Another dissolve akes a closer look at the riverside wreckage of an auto junkyard (with a "NO DUMPING ALLOWED" sign) and the decaying, urbanized eastern city [of Philadelphia, literally the City of Brotherly Love] on the horizon.