Thank You for Smoking

Published: July 14, 2007, 10:25 pm

Tags: politics, comedy, recommended, reviews

I read Christopher Buckley’s novel from which this movie came and though the film isn’t bad the book was better. Probably Aaron Eckhart, who plays Nick Naylor, the lead, is just a tad too bright and shiny compared to my mental illustration formed while reading. Thank You for Smoking is, as most of Buckley’s tales, very dark humor. Naylor is the vice president of marketing for the Academy of Tobacco Studies; in other words, he’s the chief lobbyist and spokesperson for Big Tobacco. But Nick is still human and is desperate to have a solid post-divorce relationship with his nine or ten year old son (the step-dad, of course, is a doctor who harps on Naylor everytime he brings the boy back). Senator Finisterre (D, VT), played by Bill Macy, has decided the time has come to drive another very big nail into the tobacco business: require a large skull and cross bones to be printed on the front of every pack of cigarettes. He even gets the spokesperson for a Latino group

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