Movie: Thank You for Smoking (2005)

“The chief spokesperson and lobbyist Nick Naylor is the Vice-President of the Academy of Tobacco Studies. He is talented in speaking and spins argument to defend the cigarette industry in the most difficult situations. His best friends are Polly Bailey that works in the Moderation Council in alcohol business, and Bobby Jay Bliss of the gun business own advisory group SAFETY. They frequently meet each other in a bar and they self-entitle the Mod Squad a.k.a. Merchants of Death, disputing which industry has killed more people. Nick’s greatest enemy is Vermont’s Senator Ortolan Finistirre, who defends in the Senate the use a skull and crossed bones in the cigarette packs. Nick’s son Joey Naylor lives with his mother, and has the chance to know his father in a business trip. When the ambitious reporter Heather Holloway betrays Nick disclosing confidences he had in bed with her, his life turns upside-down. But Nick is good in what he does for the mortgage. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil”

  • Director: Jason Reitman
  • Release Date: 14 April 2006 (USA)
  • Run Time: USA:92 min | Argentina:92 min
  • Country: USA
  • Genre: Comedy , Drama
  • MPAA: Rated R for language and some sexual content.

Tagline: America is living in spin

Trivia: When Nick mentions how smoking was affected by the development of motion pictures, he briefly refers to a scene between Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. The scene is from the movie To Have and Have Not (1944).

Goofs: Continuity: When Odette is climbing up the ladder in the beginning during the song, her dress turned from blue and then when the camera comes back on her, it’s white with green.

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