Thank You For Smoking

Every once in a while a movie rolls out that just makes me say wow. And as you may have guessed... "Wow!" Thank You For Smoking looks like it might be one of the funniest movies I will ever see. I don't know if it will have a re-watch quality (the ability of some movies to not get old after one viewing, this is a problem that constantly plagues M. Night Shyamalan films), but the first time through it will be great…maybe. The story follows a good looking young business man and his antics as the top lobbyist for the tobacco industry (it also shows his friends the gun lobbyist and the alcohol lobbyist). I know the film is an anti-smoking movie about how cool it is to smoke, but the entire premise, and thus the entire trailer, and so hopefully the entire movie, is(are) hilarious. Nick Naylor, played by Aaron Eckhart (Paycheck, Nurse Betty etc...) tries to sell cigarettes to kids while being a good role model for his own son (the scene at his sons school will be really funny). I think the dynamics and character caricatures will be great. This film was screened in Toronto last and will hopefully make it's way to the local silver screen (or at least the local silver-double-sided-multi-layered-disc case in the local video/game/food/apparel store)