Thank You For Smoking

After the horrible events of last week, watching a funny movie was just what I needed. And, thanks to Netflix, I had one to watch -- "Thank You For Smoking".

It's a satirical look at the lengths to which the tobacco companies will go to spin their products. The movie featured Robert Duvall as the head of a tobacco lobbying firm, Katie Holmes, who gave a so-so performance as a reporter, Sam Elliott as a former "Marlboro Man", who is dying of cancer, William H. Macy, a senator who is trying to get congress to require that a skull and cross-bones be put on every cigarette package.

Nick Naylor was the lobbyist who's job it was to spin cigarettes as the benign products that all of the tobacco companies have claimed they were for decades, all evidence to the contrary. He was played by Aaron Eckhart. I had never seen him in a film before, but, I'll be watching for him because he did a wonderful job and he's a hunk. ( I'm old, but not too old to appreciate a hunk when I see one. There may be snow on the rooftop, but there's still a fire in the furnace.)

Anyway, this movie was laugh out loud hilarious. I didn't even notic the use of that "F" word. Much. Let's just say it didn't get in the way of my enjoyment of the movie.

I recommend it.