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This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

It's an old movie of 2006 (10 years!!) that I am reviewing but thought it would be worth it. Thank You For Smoking is one movie I feel everyone should watch. And no, it won't turn you into a smoker. Story (9/10): TYFS throws a satirical light on one of the less heard perspectives of the tobacco industry in the whole anti-smoking debate. However, the writer carefully keeps the main plot as a struggle of a father who works for the tobacco industry but still holds his ground in front of his son in spite of a very hostile environment. The conversations between Nick, the protagonist father, and Joey, his son, are profound as well as humorous. As rightly said, if you can defend tobacco, you can do anything. The part on the art of argumentation is inspiring, to say. Particularly impressive about the story is that all the characters are well defined and have a strong appeal, except may be that of Nick's wife. However, a strong character sketch of Nick Naylor as a handsome, smart, articulate, unapologetic and persuasive lobbyist lifts the whole story to the next level. The MOD trio just scales the topic of the movie to other similar territories. Acting (8/10): Aaron Eckhart has probably given one of his best acting performances in the movie. Though I always imagined De Caprio could have done more justice to this kind of a character. However, Aaron doesn't disappoint at all. The supporting cast, particularly Camaron Bright, the MOD squad, Holmes, Lowe and Macy do an amazing work. Direction (9/10): If the story and the topic makes the movie all so serious - Jason Reitman's direction and screenplay brings in the much required punch of humor (or we may say, satire) to the movie to make it enjoyable. And he saves the best for the last when Nick Naylor brings to the table what is actually needed for the society in the whole anti- smoking debate. Black comedy can be difficult but Reitman nails it beautifully. Overall (9/10): All in all, the movie is a must watch for everyone. One of the best Hollywood movies that you can keep in your collection.

The movie Thank You for Smoking is focused around the life of a man named Nick Naylor who is big tobaccos chief lobbyist. Aaron Eckhart does a great job of portraying the silver tongued lobbyist Nick Naylor who is an extremely charismatic man who has enough charisma o convince the entire nation to pick up the habit of smoking. Naylor's job is to help maintain the reputation of tobacco companies and keep cigarettes in the mouth of the greater American public. The movie was created as a satire trying to show the ludicrous dealings and operations of big tobacco companies. There are scenes in which the shady dealings of these companies are shown to the audience in a hilarious manor. Such as when Naylor uses a large amount of money to bribe an individual from testifying that his cancer was brought on by his use of tobacco, this scene showed audiences the amount of money that big tobacco has puts them in a greater position of power in which they can easily manipulate things into their favor. Naylor's closest friends consist of two individuals, one being Polly Bailey a representative of the alcohol industry and the other being Bobby Jay Bliss a representative of the fire arm industry. Together the collective call themselves the merchants of death and they pride themselves over how many deaths the industry they represent rack up. In one of the more ironic scenes of the movie Naylor gets kidnapped by individuals who want him to speak out against the tobacco companies, so as a method of torture they begin pacing multiple nicotine patches on Naylor, they placed so many patches that Naylor had a near death experience. The only thing that kept Naylor alive was the fact that he was a cigarette smoker so his body was already used to the immense amount of nicotine that he was dosed with. Towards the end of the movie there is a funny scene in which the three of them are all arguing over which ones industry accumulates the highest death tool within the year, and Naylor brags about how the smoking industry is related to more deaths than fire arm use and alcohol consumption. This movie does a great job of informing the audience of the effects of tobacco use in a very comedic way that's so natural to the story progression that most individuals who watch this film won't even realize that they are gaining this information. This is why the movie is so effective in its purpose to inform and yet entertain the audience. The film never feels too pushy on the audience with its underlying message of trying to get current smokers to quit and to get people informed about the unfair tactics employed by big tobacco companies.

Alright, I've noticed several reviews that discuss the bad effects of smoking rather than the quality of the movie itself. I'm not going to get into that; I know smokers who are happy with their lifestyle and aren't sick and they've been smoking for years. I also know smokers who have gotten cancer. There may never be a right or wrong and I won't waste your time getting into all that.This movie is a laugh-riot, with very minimal crude humor and a look at the point of view of a spokesperson for tobacco. Nick lives a wealthy life money-wise, but standing up in favor of tobacco has cost him his marriage, many friendships, the respect of people nationwide and if he isn't careful, his career might also cost him his twelve-year-old son, who is conflicted between the anti-smoking propaganda at his school, and the information from his father. He has to decide which is more important, his family or his job.This is not an environmental hippie propaganda crud movie, which made me ecstatic since I love polluting things on purpose. It was nice to find a movie that explained both sides of the matter. Although it sort of shows the tobacco corporation in a bad light, Nick is not an "evil businessman monster", h truly does care about his son although taking Joey on a business trip to Big Tobacco likely wasn't the best idea, nor was the comedic parent-teacher scene. The real sleazeball in this movie is Brad, Joey's step-dad.If you're a smoker, don't worry, this movie doesn't shove all that anti-smoking crud down your throat; anything anti-smoking related in it is no different than what you see on those cigarette packages. I will warn that if you don't have a sense of humor with this type of movie, or if you don't enjoy movies like Silkwood, A Civil Action or The Insider, you may find yourself bored or annoyed at the movie.I highly recommend Thank You For Smoking. The acting for the most part is really good, the soundtrack is great and the plot is original. Definitely worth seeing at least once.

First,sorry for asking questions in review,i am bad at English which make using "FAQ" hard for me. i just really don't get what does it mean when the mortgage part.the man say mortgage is much of the life goal.and something about rent. my friends keep arguing about that and just can't come to a conclusion. i don't know when sb will happen to read this review,thank you for your time .apologize for my bad writing . ..is there ten lines? i can't do this writing!it makes me feel like i am in my English exam.... what? i will never get it. OK..i am going to write something just help me to fill the paper:i like this movie,and i found myself really interested in arguments.i just finished one course in Coursera provided by Duke university mainly about arguing,and logic.it makes me analysize articles and put them into the standard form to figure out how it works. people just keep making bad arguments all the time!maybe i am too hard on them,anyway ,i think if you want others listen to you,it's so basic to put your agruments right and pick the right word.(and work hard on English at least in my case) By the way,the Chi Gorv just blocked(i am sure it;s not the right word)the line,ins just after google FB twitter and so on,thank you for leaving IMDb for us!Maybe the officer