Run don't walk to the nearest theater showing "Thank You for Smoking". It's a very funny movie with biting satire. It's about a lobbyist for the smoking industry in Washington DC, his young son, a liberal senator from Vermont, and an attractive reporter. It's a movie about politics and Washington DC that Jonah Goldberg of National Review and liberal Roger Ebert both like.The screenplay is based on a novel by Christopher Buckley (son of William F. Buckley). Roger Ebert admired it for it's literary "Style" and "Satire". I liked it because not all the conservatives were bad and not all the liberals were good and the message was choices in life are good and that is what freedom is all about. Government can not do everything and we need to rely on our selves. Specific things I liked about the Movie:
1. Scene from Sands of Iwo Jima with John Wayne.
2. Picture of Winston Churchill on wall in one characters office.
3. Picture of Bella Abzug (absurd) in Liberal Senators office ( he is not a nice person!)
4. Talking about Jimmy Stewart in "Mr Smith Goes to Washington" and Olie North in the same conversation
5. Sam Elliot as the Marbro Man
6. Dennis Miller as a TV talk show host
7. Robert Duvall as the czar of the tobacco industry
8. The song by the Kingston Trio during the closing credits
9. The song during the opening credits
10. The bar where the lobbyist meet and their conversations.
11. The relationship between the lobbyist and his son.
12. The Joan London TV talk show scene.
To read Jonah Goldberg's review click on the title above for a link.
