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Terry Moloney (writer)
Release Date:
April 2001 (USA)
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Agena-pushing, fascist, documentary for the advancement of censorship.
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Cast
(Credited cast)| Jaques D. Barth | ... | Himself (as Dr. Jaques D. Barth) | |
| Dick Beebe | ... | Himself | |
| Bonnie Bruckheimer | ... | Herself | |
| Darren Capozzi | ... | Himself | |
| Duane Clark | ... | Himself | |
| Michael Crichton | ... | Himself | |
| R.J. Cutler | ... | Himself | |
| Ted Danson | ... | Himself | |
| Angie Dickinson | ... | Herself | |
| Richard Donner | ... | Himself | |
| René Echevarria | ... | Himself (as Rene Echevarria) | |
| Peter Eliasberg | ... | Himself | |
| Tania Gunadi | ... | Herself | |
| Dave Hackel | ... | Himself | |
| Sandy Isaac | ... | Himself | |
| Lloyd Kaufman | ... | Himself | |
| Jack Klugman | ... | Himself | |
| Canedy Knowles | ... | Herself (as Cannedy Knowles) | |
| Dawnn Lewis | ... | Herself | |
| Kevin Linehan | ... | Himself | |
| Jeremy London | ... | Himself | |
| John Carroll Lynch | ... | Himself | |
| Stephen Nemeth | ... | Himself | |
| Ismael N. Nuño | ... | Himself (as Dr. Ismael N. Nuño) | |
| Jason Patric | ... | Himself | |
| Sean Penn | ... | Himself | |
| George Plimpton | ... | Himself | |
| Dennis Prager | ... | Himself | |
| Rob Reiner | ... | Himself | |
| Alan Riche | ... | Himself | |
| Edwin Sherin | ... | Himself (as Ed Sherin) | |
| Randi Mayem Singer | ... | Herself | |
| Douglas Day Stewart | ... | Himself | |
| Matthew Tabak | ... | Himself | |
| Christy Turlington | ... | Herself | |
| Jeffrey Wigand | ... | Himself (as Dr. Jeffrey Wigand) |
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Ted Danson:
Smoking is a great prop. It's a great prop in life.
Sean Penn: Make no mistake; as it relates to a conversation on film, this is strictly a censorship conversation. No question, this film is about censorship.
Chrsity Turlington: There is a strange sort of rebelliosness that is associated with smoking, and the thing is, it's such a false rebelliousness. There's nothing cool about it. It's conformity in the worst way.
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Sean Penn: Make no mistake; as it relates to a conversation on film, this is strictly a censorship conversation. No question, this film is about censorship.
Chrsity Turlington: There is a strange sort of rebelliosness that is associated with smoking, and the thing is, it's such a false rebelliousness. There's nothing cool about it. It's conformity in the worst way.
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I just got this at the library and I was dreadfully disappointed with it. From the box, it sounded like it was going to analyze smoking in film, but it merely pushed an anti-smoking, and ultimately, pro-censorship position. This is little more than a piece of the same propaganda one would receive in a high school health class. I was pleasantly surprised that Sean Penn, someone I had assumed would be all for the PC-ification of the film industry, was calling the filmmakers on their real motives. I was even further surprised that the filmmakers, who were so obviously for the censorship of film and free speech, would leave his comments in the film. While this, and a few other people interviewed, were allowed to voice their opinion, the good majority of the film was comprised of (literally) anti-smoking commercials, anti-smoking facts, and people who were peripherally involved in the film industry voicing their anti-smoking opinions. This film had very little to do with cinema at all. In fact, none of the scenes they use to show how un-cool smoking supposedly is weren't from actual films but appeared to be stock footage or from commercials.