Thank You for Smoking
The film follows the efforts of Big Tobacco's chief spokesman, Nick Naylor, who lobbies on behalf of cigarettes using heavy spin tactics while also trying to remain a role model for his 12-year-old son.
26 October 1973, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
4 July 1945, Reinbeck, Iowa, USA
26 January 1993, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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August 30, 2009
The joke fizzles
June 24, 2006
Aiming at all targets and hitting none of them, the movie is as harmless and inconsequential as a candy cigarette.
March 31, 2006
Literate and smirky in its assault on liars and fools across the map.
February 28, 2008
Thank You For Smoking is an elegant satire, sneaky and subtle...
November 07, 2012
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.
October 07, 2006
The picture is obviously a satire, but it has no sharpness, no sense of daring.
May 12, 2006
Even the good lines here last a self-congratulatory beat too long.
September 19, 2009
Thank You For Smoking gets much of its juice from a superb Aaron Eckhart as Nick Naylor.
July 17, 2007
Leave your preconceptions at the door, prepare for your favourite causes to be skewered, and enjoy. This is one fun movie.
March 31, 2006
Reitman, still in his 20s, knows something that many more seasoned directors never figure out: how to make audiences laugh along with a film that's laughing at itself.
August 10, 2007
played so amiably that you barely notice how prickly its barbs are until they have dug right in.
April 07, 2006
Deliciously nasty, naughty satire.
