From the best-selling novel by Christopher Buckley THANK YOU FOR SMOKING is a hilariously satirical and daring expose of the tobacco corporations, and their unenviable PR task that, until recently, Nick Naylor (AARON ECKHART – Erin Brockovich, Paycheck, The Pledge) breezed through. Witty, fast talking and devilishly charming, Nick is viewed by some as Satan himself – able to counter any argument against his employers, ‘Big Tobacco’, with a smart-alecky retort or an ingenious spin. Times are changing however, and the corporations feel that tobacco PR machine is finished. With scientific research making it almost impossible to deny tobacco’s close correlation with death; his need to become a better role model for his twelve year old son; and the Marlboro Man dying and ready to tell all – Nick finds his career hanging in the balance. But it’s always going to be tough to have a conscience when your two best friends are a gun advocate and an alcohol lobbyist (known collectively as the MOD squad – “Merchants Of Death”) Nick’s superb touches – including charming the pants off an entire audience in a smoking debate on the Oprah Winfrey show; or speaking at a “what do you do” day in front of his son’s classroom; or even negotiating cigarette product placement and smoking techniques in a big budget studio movie – makes this a comedy for anyone who dares to speak out against political correctness.
But after being kidnapped and subjected to a life-threatening dose of nicotine patches, and his all too truthful sexual relationship with a devious reporter, Nick is about to be found out for good… Should he bow out graciously, or is there one last spin he can put on this?
