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Thank You For Smoking

Thank You For Smoking (2005)

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Average Rating: 7.3/10
Reviews Counted: 177
Fresh: 152 | Rotten: 25

Delightfully unscrupulous characters and searing cynicism prick all sides of the anti-smoking issue with hilarity and intelligence.

74

Average Rating: 6.9/10
Critic Reviews: 39
Fresh: 29 | Rotten: 10

Delightfully unscrupulous characters and searing cynicism prick all sides of the anti-smoking issue with hilarity and intelligence.

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Average Rating: 3.7/5
User Ratings: 231,906

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The directorial debut from Jason Reitman, the media satire Thank You for Smoking stars Aaron Eckhart as Nick, a man who has turned spinning news and information into a successful career for the tobacco lobby. He plots strategies with his colleagues (Maria Bello and David Koechner) on how to make other dangerous products more appealing to the American public. Nick ends up going to Hollywood with his young son (Cameron Bright) in order to get a movie producer to include characters smoking in his

R, 1 hr. 32 min.

Drama, Comedy

Jason Reitman

Oct 3, 2006

$24.6M

Fox Searchlight

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Critic Reviews for Thank You For Smoking

All Critics (182) | Top Critics (39) | Fresh (160) | Rotten (25) | DVD (31)

The picture is obviously a satire, but it has no sharpness, no sense of daring.

October 7, 2006 Full Review Source: Salon.com | Comments (3)
Stephanie Zacharek
Salon.com
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Even the good lines here last a self-congratulatory beat too long.

May 12, 2006 Full Review Source: New York Magazine | Comment
David Edelstein
New York Magazine
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Deliciously nasty, naughty satire.

April 7, 2006 Full Review Source: Orlando Sentinel | Comment
Roger Moore
Orlando Sentinel
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Literate and smirky in its assault on liars and fools across the map.

March 31, 2006 Full Review Source: Houston Chronicle | Comment
Amy Biancolli
Houston Chronicle
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In the end, Nick and the world in which he traffics ends up a comic interpretation of a serious situation, and while the amoral ambiguity of the entire film is intriguing for a while, in the end you realize this patient has no pulse.

March 31, 2006 Full Review Source: Detroit News | Comment
Tom Long
Detroit News
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To Reitman's credit, the director does not allow Thank You for Smoking to take the turn we would expect.

March 31, 2006 Full Review Source: Detroit Free Press | Comment
Terry Lawson
Detroit Free Press
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Thank You For Smoking gets much of its juice from a superb Aaron Eckhart as Nick Naylor.

September 19, 2009 Full Review Source: Film and Felt | Comment
Gabe Leibowitz
Film and Felt

The joke fizzles

August 30, 2009 Full Review Source: CinePassion | Comment
Fernando F. Croce
CinePassion

Mostly clever comedy about lobbyists. For adults.

July 17, 2008 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment
Cynthia Fuchs
Common Sense Media

Thank You For Smoking is an elegant satire, sneaky and subtle...

February 28, 2008 Full Review Source: BrandonFibbs.com | Comments (2)
Brandon Fibbs
BrandonFibbs.com

played so amiably that you barely notice how prickly its barbs are until they have dug right in.

August 10, 2007 Full Review Source: Eye for Film | Comment
Anton Bitel
Eye for Film

This extremely well equipped DVD provides the movie in its original widescreen format.

July 17, 2007 Full Review Source: Apollo Guide | Comment
Brian Webster
Apollo Guide

Leave your preconceptions at the door, prepare for your favourite causes to be skewered, and enjoy. This is one fun movie.

July 17, 2007 Full Review Source: Apollo Guide | Comment
Brian Webster
Apollo Guide

It is delicious and satisfying, but unlike cigarettes, it is not habit-forming.

July 10, 2007 Full Review Source: DVD Review | Comment
Felix Gonzalez Jr.
DVD Review

Reveling in politically incorrect humor, Reitman takes no prisoners in his debut feature that tackles everything from political hypocrisy to baby seals.

July 10, 2007 Full Review Source: DVD Review | Comment
Felix Gonzalez Jr.
DVD Review

The rare film that stays within itself, mocking its obvious targets with the cool insouciance of mentholated tobacco.

February 22, 2007 Full Review Source: Film Journal International | Comment
Rex Roberts
Film Journal International

... a real-life comedic drama that doesn't preach so much as it encourages you to think for yourself lest you be bamboozled like the rest of the flock.

January 28, 2007 Full Review Source: MovieCrypt.com | Comment
Kevin A. Ranson
MovieCrypt.com

The DVD edition includes two commentaries with director Jason Reitman (the one with star Eckhart is more poignant), behind the scene feature, deleted scenes, storyboard images, and a segment from Charlie Rose Show with the filmmakers and author Buckley

November 13, 2006 Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com | Comment
Emanuel Levy
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Cleaver Thats the best way to describe this movie and the way Aaron Eckhart acts throughout the whole movie. Enjoy!

October 31, 2011
paul o.
paul oh

Super Reviewer

Lying's not murder, is it ... and that's the popular wisdom, a thought that guides many existences, but in this flush comedy the lead proclaims, no, sneers that Genghis Khan's got nothing on him as he's the charming and suave mouthpiece for big tobacco. A quick, smart script and smooth direction round out this very

April 10, 2012
moonrivers
moon rivers

Super Reviewer

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    1. Nick Naylor: You know that guy who can get with any girl he wants? I'm him..on crack.
    – Submitted by Haroon M (2 months ago)
    1. Nick Naylor: I earn a living fronting an organization that kills 1,200 human beings a day. 1,200 people! We're talking two jumbo jet plane loads of men, women and children. I mean, there's Attila, Genghis and me, Nick Naylor, the face of cigarettes, the Colonel Sanders of nicotine.
    – Submitted by Chad E (5 months ago)
    1. Nick Naylor: I don't have an MD or a law degree. I have a bachelors at kicking butt and taking names.
    – Submitted by Chad E (5 months ago)
    1. Joey Naylor: Mom says it's because you have dependency issues and it was all just a matter of time before you threw it all away on some tramp.
    2. Nick Naylor: Well, that's one theory.
    – Submitted by Chris P (13 months ago)
    1. Lorne Lutch: You look like a nice enough fella. What are you doing working for these assholes?
    2. Nick Naylor: I'm good at it. Better at doing this than I ever was at doing anything else.
    – Submitted by Chris P (13 months ago)

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