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Thank You For Smoking [2005]
from 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
starring Aaron Eckhart, Sam Elliott, Robert Duvall, Maria Bello, David Koechner
directed by Jason Reitman

Features:

• Anamorphic
• PAL

Editorial Review:

As one of the funniest films released in 2006, Thank You for Smoking works precisely because it shouldn’t. Its protagonist is Nick Naylor (Aaron Eckhart), a smooth-talking spokesman for the American tobacco industry, and therefore one of the 21st Century’s most demonised men. From his gelled hair to his perfect teeth, he’s all slick and smarmy charm, though crucially, it’s his self-awareness that keeps him from degenerating into a completely amoral character. Naylor genuinely loves his teenaged son, Joey (Cameron Bright), and he’s determined to be a good role model. However, that’s not such an easy feat when the press and a US Senator are baying for your blood, and your own best friends are the self-styled M.O.D. (Merchants of Death) Squad (one is a gun lobbyist, the other does the same for alcohol).

Thank You for Smoking is a satire, but director / screenwriter Jason Reitman is clever enough to play it straight. And the supporting cast are, as a whole, superb, from William H Macy’s liberal, headline-grabbing Senator to Katie Holmes’s two-faced journalist. But it’s Eckhart’s performance as the charismatic Nick Naylor that is so convincing. By the end of the film, he manages to build sympathy not just for himself, but for the American tobacco industry--and that’s no mean feat for Hollywood, particularly as non-smoking laws mean that, throughout the entirety of Thank You for Smoking, nobody is seen smoking a cigarette. --Ted Kord

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Brilliant satire
  Jason Reitman should be pleased as punch with his superb directorial debut about a spokesman working for the American tobacco industry. The script simply bursts with wit, rich dialogue and snappy satirical shifts and it is anchored by a fabulous performance from the excellent Aaron Eckhart as Nick Naylor, a disarming spin doctor who defends his amoral employers against the most damning of odds.
  I hugely enjoyed this film and it is piercingly funny in places, often cutting quite close to the bone. As... more info

• The Yuppie Nuremberg Defense
  "I just need to pay the mortgage. Aside: The Yuppie Nuremberg Defense."
  - Nick Naylor in Thank you for Smoking
  Because of a fellow reviewer's comment, I decided to watch THANK YOU FOR SMOKING. Aaron Eckhart plays Nick Naylor who is a VP and "chief talking head" for the Academy of Tobacco Studies.
  The Academy is supposed to research the link between nicotine and cancer. Who would have thought that they would never find any connection?
  Nick gets himself into trouble with his "flexible... more info

• High Quality satire
  Thank You For Smoking isn't your usual desperate laugh-a-minute movie. It's reserved, intelligent and sometimes brutal. The humour here is dark and brooding, the kind of stuff you'll smile about in the moment, and laugh about later.
  I think what I liked most about this film is the way it walks a very tight-line. I mean, it really does make you care about quite an arrogant, immoral jerk who doesn't seem to care about anyone beyond himself and his boy. This is purely because Eckhart's character is so... more info

• Americans do understand satire after all
  Wow, a genuinely funny satire. I honestly didn't think that any studio was interested in making films like this any more. Talented cast, excellent script, treats it's audience with a modicum of intelligence.
  One of my favourite films of 2007. Watch it!

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