Thank You for Smoking

It's not quite a conservative film, but does asks the audience to think | Andrew Coffin

Judging just by the subject matter or even the very funny trailer for Thank You for Smoking, it looks like yet another politically correct box-office invective, this time taking aim at corporations, lobbyists, and the tobacco industry. But a visit to the theater with no other information at hand might lead to some surprises.

The only politician who figures prominently in the plot is a self-righteous, hypocritical doof—but Sen. Ortolan Finistirre (William H. Macy) is a Birkenstock-wearing, bleeding-heart liberal from Vermont. Then there's crusading Washington journalist Heather Holloway (Katie Holmes). "Surely, she must be the moral center of this story," you think to yourself—until the film all but asks the audience to let out a cheer when her hypocrisy is exposed and she receives her just deserts.

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