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Cold Turkey is a 1971 satirical black comedy film starring Dick Van Dyke and a long list of comedic actors. The film was written for the screen and produced by Norman Lear, who also directed the film, marking his directorial debut. It remains his only directorial feature film credit.
Feb 19, 1971 · Cold Turkey: Directed by Norman Lear. With Dick Van Dyke, Pippa Scott, Tom Poston, Edward Everett Horton. Hoping for positive publicity, a tobacco company offers $25 million to any American town that quits smoking for 30 days.
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Sep 23, 2021 · Topics. Tobacco, Smoking, Comedy. As part of a public relations and marketing strategy to compare the empathy of Big Tobacco to the nobility of the Nobel Peace Prize, advertising executive Merwin Wren (Newhart) convinces the Valiant Tobacco Company to propose a challenge: a tax-free check for $25,000,000 ($176.4 million today) to any city or ...
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Apr 5, 2012 · The following month United Artists released the biting satire Cold Turkey (1971), which Lear had produced and written, and which also ranks as the only feature film (to date) he has directed. Executive-produced by Lear's television partner Bud Yorkin, the film is the blackest of black comedies, and takes on numerous obvious targets such as ...
We meet the minister, the mayor, the town drunk and a little old lady in tennis shoes whose favorite word contains eight letters the least of which are 'bull,' during a series of vignettes handled by Lear with an unfailing eye for human frailty. Even if you don't smoke, you'll find "Cold Turkey" funny. You're greedy, aren't you?
Cold Turkey. PG-13 Released Feb 19, 1971 1h 39m Comedy. List. 60% Tomatometer 15 Reviews. 65% Audience Score 500+ Ratings. In the depressed town of Eagle Rock, Reverend Brooks (Dick Van Dyke ...
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Overview. Reverend Brooks leads the town in a contest to stop smoking for a month, But some tobacco executives don't want them to win, and try everything they can to make them smoke. If townspeople don't go nuts, from wanting a cigarette, or kill each other from irritation and frustration, they will win a huge prize. Norman Lear.
