Thank You for Smoking (2006)
83%RT Audience Score:
Awards & Nominations: 12 wins & 32 nominations
Loaded with delightfully unscrupulous characters and and a witty, cynical script, Thank You For Smoking is a sharp satire with a brilliantly smarmy lead performance from Aaron Eckhart
Thank You For Smoking is like a breath of fresh air, if that air was filled with cigarette smoke. This movie is a hilarious and biting satire that will leave you coughing with laughter. Aaron Eckhart delivers a standout performance as Nick Naylor, a tobacco lobbyist who can argue his way out of anything. The supporting cast is also top-notch, with Rob Lowe stealing the show as a slimy Hollywood agent. If you like your comedy strong and unfiltered, Thank You For Smoking is the movie for you. Just don’t forget to bring a pack of cigarettes to the theater.
Production Company(ies)
Distributor
NA
Release Type
Theatrical
Filming Location(s)
The Prince – 3198 W 7th St, Los Angeles, California, USA
MPAA / Certificate
Rated R for language and some sexual content
Year of Release
2006
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Color:Color
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Sound mix:Dolby Digital
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Aspect ratio:2.39:1
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Runtime:NA
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Language(s):English
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Country of origin:United States
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Release date:Release Date (Streaming): Oct 3, 2006
Genre(s)
Comedy/Drama
Keyword(s)
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Worldwide gross: $39,323,027
Worldwide gross (inflation-adjusted): $57,987,980
Worldwide gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): 1,268
Worldwide tickets sold (est.): 6,323,662
US/Canada gross: $24,793,509
US/Canada gross (inflation-adjusted): $36,561,923
US/Canada gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): 1,199
US/Canada opening weekend: $262,923
US/Canada opening weekend (inflation-adjusted): $387,721
US/Canada opening weekend ranking (inflation-adjusted): 1,466
Budget and Earnings Details
Production budget (est.): $6,500,000
Production budget (inflation-adjusted): $9,585,271
Production budget ranking: 1,693
Marketing and distribution budget (inflation-adjusted est.): $5,161,668
Box office net earnings to date (inflation-adjusted est.): $43,241,040
ROI to date (est.): 293%
ROI ranking: 466
Maria Bello – Polly Bailey
Cameron Bright – Joey Naylor
Adam Brody – Jack
Sam Elliott – Lorne Lutch
Katie Holmes – Heather Holloway
Director – Jason Reitman
Producer – David Sacks
Writer – Jason Reitman
Director(s)
Jason Reitman
Writer(s)
Jason Reitman
Producer(s)
David Sacks
Film Festivals
Awards & Nominations
12 wins & 32 nominations
Academy Awards
All Critics (180) | Top Critics (52) | Fresh (155) | Rotten (25)
The picture is obviously a satire, but it has no sharpness, no sense of daring.
October 7, 2006
Stephanie Zacharek
Salon.com
TOP CRITIC
There’s enough bite in the dialogue and performances to provoke a hacking cough of approval, and the laugh-out-loud moments are many, not least in scenes featuring Rob Lowe’s unctuous Hollywood agent.
June 24, 2006
Mark Kermode
Guardian
TOP CRITIC
Aiming at all targets and hitting none of them, the movie is as harmless and inconsequential as a candy cigarette.
June 24, 2006
Jessica Winter
Time Out
TOP CRITIC
Structural scrappiness aside, it remains a laudably amoral and superbly caustic comedy for those who like their satire strong and unfiltered.
June 24, 2006 | Rating: 3/5
Dan Jolin
Empire Magazine
TOP CRITIC
As a clear-eyed dissection of the dirty business of public relations, where “if you argue correctly, you’re never wrong”, it is pretty much peerless.
May 23, 2006 | Rating: 4/5
Paul Arendt
BBC.com
TOP CRITIC
Even the good lines here last a self-congratulatory beat too long.
May 12, 2006
David Edelstein
New York Magazine/Vulture
TOP CRITIC
A hilarious, insightful, honest, and endearing film.
September 26, 2020 | Rating: 3.5/4.0
Richard Propes
TheIndependentCritic.com
A nifty supporting cast delivers the savage hand-grenade, quality one-liners with a ferocious believability.
May 11, 2020
David Lamble
Bay Area Reporter
A razor-sharp satire that’s smart and funny and features a great performance by Aaron Eckhart.
November 20, 2019 | Rating: A-
Micheal Compton
Bowling Green Daily News
Thank You For Smoking gets much of its juice from a superb Aaron Eckhart as Nick Naylor.
September 19, 2009 | Rating: 60/100
Gabe Leibowitz
Film and Felt
The joke fizzles
August 30, 2009
Fernando F. Croce
CinePassion
Thank You For Smoking is an elegant satire, sneaky and subtle…
February 28, 2008 | Rating: 7/10
Brandon Fibbs
BrandonFibbs.com…
Plot
The chief spokesperson and lobbyist Nick Naylor is the Vice President of the Academy of Tobacco Studies. He is talented in speaking and spins arguments 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-title the M.O.D. 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 of a skull and crossbones on 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.
Trivia
Goofs / Tidbits
The film features a “brilliantly smarmy lead performance” from Aaron Eckhart.
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