If you loved Red Rocket, try Thank You for Smoking

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

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Red Rocket

2021 · dir. Sean Baker

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Thank You for Smoking

2005 · dir. Jason Reitman

What they share

Theysit in Comedy / Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to Red Rocket, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

What Thank You for Smoking is

Washington DC, a humid summer, a cigarette lighter clicks. A lobbyist speaks, a senator scowls, a young son looks up. Jason Reitman finds humor in spin.

If you loved Red Rocket, try Thank You for Smoking

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