Thank You for Smoking

This film is just too cute for its own good. I'd pass on recommending it because its tone is inconsistent--one minute it's a farce and the next something else serious and unrelated.

When the Katie Holmes character drops her papers to the floor (I'm not kidding) after her affair with Nick Naylor is outed on TV, I cringed. And Tom Cruise was not even in the vicinity.

More offensive and hackneyed is the way they use Nick's teenage son (a terrible actor by the way) as the precocious know-it-all with more intelligence and common sense than his slick father. I gagged at the scenes where son beats father at the game of "figuring life out". Bleccch.