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..."That's the beauty of arguments," he tells his son, "if you argue correctly, you're never wrong." Adapted for the screen and directed by Jason Reitman in his feature debut, Thank You for Smoking is a dark, comedic companion to such recent films as Good Night, and Good Luck and Syriana, both of which recall the politically charged films of the 1970s.

Reitman, whose father, Ivan, directed such classics as Ghostbusters and Meatballs, is clearly a student of cinema, taking as much from his father as from directors like Sidney Lumet, whose films such as Dog Day Afternoon and Network echo in Thank You for Smoking's morally ambiguous mix of politics and humor.

"I am fortunate enough to have a father who is a filmmaker and opened me up to smart films when I was younger," Reitman told WW during a recent phone interview.

"I saw Network, obviously, and I'm sure subversive movies like that, that not only were subversive in their politics but innovative in their filmmaking, had an effect on me.

But when I finally sat down to do Thank You for Smoking, it was just kind of a natural reaction.

It's only since the movie has been finished that I can say, 'OK, I see where I was influenced there.'" advertisement advertisement Although Buckley's b...