Thank You for Smoking (Full Screen) R
Tobacco lobbyist Nick Naylor is trying to SAVE YOUR ASH!
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 31 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 16, 2009
- Originally Released: 2005
- Label: 20th Century Fox
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Aaron Eckhart | |
Performer: | Maria Bello, Cameron Bright, Adam Brody, Katie Holmes, David Koechner, Rob Lowe, William H. Macy, J.K. Simmons, Robert Duvall & Sam Elliott | |
Directed by | Jason Reitman | |
Edited by | Dana E. Glauberman | |
Screenwriting by | Jason Reitman | |
Composition by | Rolfe Kent | |
Produced by | Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Max Levchin & Mark Woolway | |
Director of Photography: | James Whitaker |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/5 --
Curiously, the film's key drawback --its impassive resolution feels a little too slick -- is arguably indicative of the theme: no matter how much we may think we're peeling back the layers, all we arrive at is another façade.
Empire Magazine Australasia
4 stars out of 5 -- [W]ith a snappy visual style and a terrific ensemble cast...
Uncut
Eckhart advocates devilishly as tobacco lobbyist/spin surgeon Nick Naylor... -- Grade: B
Entertainment Weekly
[I]t may provide some transitory pleasure for its ostensible equal-opportunity political skewering.
New York Times
3 stars out of 5 -- Reitman is fighting absurdity with absurdity...
Total Film
Rating: 4/5 --
As a clear-eyed dissection of the dirty business of public relations, where "if you argue correctly, you're never wrong", it is pretty much peerless.
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BBC.com
[T]here's sufficient blistering irony in its first hour and a steady enough rat-a-tat-tat of new-millennium cynicism to make THANK YOU FOR SMOKING addictive stuff.
Sight and Sound
Product Description:
Jason Reitman has learned well. The son of director-producer Ivan Reitman (STRIPES, GHOSTBUSTERS) makes a strong impact with his debut feature film, the hysterical THANK YOU FOR SMOKING. Based on the wry novel by Christopher Buckley, THANK YOU FOR SMOKING is set in the fascinating world of Washington spin, where, more often than not, money trumps politics and morals. Aaron Eckhart (IN THE COMPANY OF MEN, ERIN BROCKOVICH) is outstanding as Nick Naylor, the public spokesman for Big Tobacco. The blond pretty boy has no problem whatsoever going on television and telling people that smoking can actually be good for them. He meets regularly with the M.O.D. Squad -- fellow Merchants of Death Polly Bailey (Maria Bello), who represents the alcohol business, and Bobby Jay Bliss (David Koechner), who defends firearms -- where they fight over who has the more difficult job based on the number of deaths their respective industries are responsible for. The smooth-talking Naylor's next big adversary is Vermont senator Ortolan Finistirre (William H. Macy), who is calling for the government to place a skull and crossbones and the word "Poison" on all cigarette boxes. At the same time, Naylor is sent out to Hollywood to make a deal with high-powered agent Jeff Megall (Rob Lowe) to get more stars to smoke in movies, like in the good old days. All the while, Naylor is trying to establish a better relationship with his young son, Joey (Cameron Bright), without playing down his highly questionable job. The strong cast also includes Kim Dickens as Naylor's ex-wife, J.K. Simmons as his boss, Katie Holmes as a sexy reporter, Sam Elliott as the former Marlboro Man now dying of lung cancer, and Robert Duvall as the Captain, an old-time tobacco chief who takes Naylor under his wings. THANK YOU FOR SMOKING is a very funny satire that will leave audiences gasping for breath from laughing so hard.
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- Sales Rank: 129,407
- UPC: 024543260851
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