Thank You for Smoking
Thank You for Smoking
R | 09 September 2005 (USA)
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Nick Naylor is a charismatic spin-doctor for Big Tobacco who'll fight to protect America's right to smoke -- even if it kills him -- while still remaining a role model for his 12-year old son. When he incurs the wrath of a senator bent on snuffing out cigarettes, Nick's powers of "filtering the truth" will be put to the test.

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CommentsXp

Best movie ever!

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Numerootno

A story that's too fascinating to pass by...

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Ella-May O'Brien

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

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Dana

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

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atesimyuksek

This film included and encourage having sexual affair, and envy to have this kind of relations. So what have to we do? First buy some cosmetics, of course,buy some condom, buy perfume, go some place which you can have somebody. Make baby, have an abortion or not, have the baby, hospital expenses, when baby comes out buy diaper... Etc. So my point actually Hollywood's sexist mentality itself makes money.... I'm not sure I can make my point but this film zeroize itself. Anyway...

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theroommatereview

Some of the best acting you out there Thank You For smoking is a a excellent character profile of Nick Naylor a tobacco lobbyist. The catchy cinematography and colorful environments keep you captivated in what becomes a rather insightful look into the world of politics and lobbyist. We venture from one location to another rapidly never pausing to soak in what we are looking at. It keeps you disoriented in a similar way to how Nick keeps his opponents disoriented with his quick wit and endless arguments. While you could hate Nate for his rather deplorable job he becomes likable by the end because his charisma overwhelms his other traits. Beyond just Nick the entire cast performs exceptionally giving us a host of wonderful characters to enjoy. Check out a more in depth review here. The in-depth review does contain spoilers. https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=NvTGGWtByFw

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nicholaschambless

The movie Thank You for Smoking is focused around the life of a man named Nick Naylor who is big tobaccos chief lobbyist. Aaron Eckhart does a great job of portraying the silver tongued lobbyist Nick Naylor who is an extremely charismatic man who has enough charisma o convince the entire nation to pick up the habit of smoking. Naylor's job is to help maintain the reputation of tobacco companies and keep cigarettes in the mouth of the greater American public. The movie was created as a satire trying to show the ludicrous dealings and operations of big tobacco companies. There are scenes in which the shady dealings of these companies are shown to the audience in a hilarious manor. Such as when Naylor uses a large amount of money to bribe an individual from testifying that his cancer was brought on by his use of tobacco, this scene showed audiences the amount of money that big tobacco has puts them in a greater position of power in which they can easily manipulate things into their favor. Naylor's closest friends consist of two individuals, one being Polly Bailey a representative of the alcohol industry and the other being Bobby Jay Bliss a representative of the fire arm industry. Together the collective call themselves the merchants of death and they pride themselves over how many deaths the industry they represent rack up. In one of the more ironic scenes of the movie Naylor gets kidnapped by individuals who want him to speak out against the tobacco companies, so as a method of torture they begin pacing multiple nicotine patches on Naylor, they placed so many patches that Naylor had a near death experience. The only thing that kept Naylor alive was the fact that he was a cigarette smoker so his body was already used to the immense amount of nicotine that he was dosed with. Towards the end of the movie there is a funny scene in which the three of them are all arguing over which ones industry accumulates the highest death tool within the year, and Naylor brags about how the smoking industry is related to more deaths than fire arm use and alcohol consumption. This movie does a great job of informing the audience of the effects of tobacco use in a very comedic way that's so natural to the story progression that most individuals who watch this film won't even realize that they are gaining this information. This is why the movie is so effective in its purpose to inform and yet entertain the audience. The film never feels too pushy on the audience with its underlying message of trying to get current smokers to quit and to get people informed about the unfair tactics employed by big tobacco companies.

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Neil Welch

Nick's job is spinning good PR for the tobacco industry, and he is very good at it. Unfortunately, for all his quick thinking and gift of the gab, there are those who feel that he is doing the devil's work and hold him responsible. Nick has to tread a careful line to keep his life in balance.Based on Christopher Buckley's sharply funny satirical novel, Jason Reitman's film is well adapted, well cast and well directed. Nick is the sort of part any actor would leap at, and Aaron Eckhart gives a tour de force performance. There is plenty of food for thought, some decent plot, and a great deal of humour: Nick's sheer nerve in fronting some of the defensive lines he comes up with is funny, funny stuff.

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