Thank You for Smoking (Widescreen Edition)

Thank You for Smoking (Widescreen Edition)
by Jason Reitman

Thank You for Smoking (Widescreen Edition)
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Actor: Aaron Eckhart, Eric Haberman, Joan Lunden, Mary Jo Smith, Todd Louiso
Director: Jason Reitman
Brand: ECKHART,AARON
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.1
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.40:1
Running Time: 91 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-10-03
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: 20th Century Fox

DVD Reviews of Thank You for Smoking (Widescreen Edition)

DVD Review: Intelligent Comedy!!!!
Summary: 5 Stars

I loved this movie when I saw it in the theater. Besides being hilarious, this flick is a how to in BSing.

Anyway, the acting was on point, especially Aaron Eckhart, who until I saw him in this film, that I finally took notice. In this film his character Nick Nayler is not a one dimensional character who is just a quick witted, smooth talking, lobbyist, but someone who is also a caring father... Aaron is great in this film.


So, I highly recommend this film for its smart writing, great acting and one of the messages it sends out which I hold dear to my heart...

"Don't be a mindless follower, but instead, think for yourself?"

DVD Review: Refreshingly intelligent satire
Summary: 5 Stars

Aaron Eckhart is fast becoming one of my favorite actors to watch (The Dark Night and Conversations with Other Women both showcase his talent) but my interest started with his excellent portrayal of a lobbyist for the tobacco industry in this great movie.
It's hard to find fault in Thank You For Smoking. It features an intelligent script, sharp and disciplined acting, and smooth yet brisk pacing. There are plenty of laughs, a perfect dose of heart, and a filleting of not only the lobby world, but of government, Hollywood, power, and the gullible American public that is surgically precise. There are no punches pulled here, Eckhart leads a brilliant cast of actors and Thank You For Smoking is easily one of the best satire comedies I have seen in a long time. When you look at how much praise Tropic Thunder got for trying (unsuccessfully) to pull off the same skewering satire, it should make you appreciate a gem like TYFS that much more. This is highly recommended.

DVD Review: Awesome movie!
Summary: 5 Stars

This movie is great. It's hilarious with a very cynical tone throughout the movie. The negotiating and reasoning is great, will teach you how to deal with people.

DVD Review: Thank you for Buying
Summary: 5 Stars

This movie is a hilarious parody of everything it touches; Political lobbies, Hollywood, and most of all the American homeowner, trying to pay the mortgage.

DVD Review: Spin is the message, not anti-tobacco
Summary: 4 Stars

You might mistake this for an anti-smoking propaganda movie, and there is just a little of that. But this is really about modern spin and how it's taken over every issue in society, making it difficult to filter out fact from fiction. This is unexpectedly entertaining.

Description of Thank You for Smoking (Widescreen Edition)

WARNING: Thank You For Smoking "just might make you laugh your head off!" (MAXIM). Aaron Eckhart stars as Nick Naylor, a sexy, 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 (William H. Macy) bent on snuffing out cigarettes, Nick's powers of "filtering the truth" will be put to the test. As Nick says, "If you want an easy job, go work for the Red Cross."
As the saying goes, Aaron Eckhart was born to play Nick Naylor, the 30-something "voice of Big Tobacco" in this brazen satire of corporate profits and what lobbyists will do to protect them. Right from the opening, Eckhart is in spin mode, turning the tables on a popular talk show when he states health officials want a young teen stricken by cancer to die more than big tobacco does, since the boy would be a martyr to them, but only a single lost customer to the industry. Audiences gasp, panelists guffaw, and the kid happily shakes Nick's hand. The Academy of Tobacco Studies has a colorful array of folks surrounding Nick, including his cantankerous boss (J.K. Simmons) and the Colonel (Robert Duvall), tobacco's undisputed leader. His closet friends are lobbyists for guns (David Koechner) and alcohol (Maria Bello) who discuss their odd businesses over regular lunches, but when a cutie-pie reporter (Katie Holmes) swings into Nick's life, things begin to unravel. Based on Christopher Buckley's even more outlandish novel, Thank You for Smoking is a bright light for the filmgoer tired of gutless films formulated by committee, and first-time filmmaker Jason Reitman has expertly cast the film, which includes deft turns by William H. Macy and Sam Elliot. Nick's son, a throwaway in the novel, becomes a major influence here in Nick's development and a key student of Naylorisms such as, "If you argue correctly, then you're never wrong," though a father and son trip to Hollywood to visit an uber agent (Rob Lowe at his most suave) demonstrates how the inclusion of the son both helps and hurts the film. Book fans will miss the wicked plot turn, but the final result is a sharp and smart comedy deserving of a long, savory drag. --Doug Thomas

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