Thank You for Smoking

Genre: Comedy

Worldwide gross$24.8M

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.

🏆 13 wins & 32 nominations total

Genres

Comedy, Drama

Director

Jason Reitman

Cast

Aaron Eckhart, Cameron Bright, Maria Bello

Released

14 April 2006

Runtime

1h 32m

Certificate

R

IMDb rating

7.5 / 10

Votes

235,123

Metascore

71

Rotten Tomatoes

86%

Box office

$24,793,509

Edition

Base