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- It is, within its limitations, a very engaging, very funny movie. The Saran is still there, but it is wrapped around a lot of typical, nasty humor and old-fashioned, clean-cut vulgarity. Full Review | May 9, 2005 Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times TOP CRITIC Even if you don't smoke, you'll find Cold Turkey funny.
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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, produced, and directed by Norman Lear, marking his directorial debut and his only directorial feature film credit.
Reviews. Cold Turkey. Comedy. 99 minutes ‧ PG ‧ 1971. Roger Ebert. April 14, 1971. 3 min read. I was musing the other day that there aren’t enough fat men in movies, and especially not enough mean fat men filled with malice and avarice. Too many movie fat men are jolly these days, and we don’t have the Sidney Greenstreets with ice in their eyes.
The idea for "Cold Turkey" was a good one, and it had a lot of potential. It could have been a first-rate satire, but instead we have a film that goes part way and then losses its steam. So, it comes off like a light-hearted soap opera.
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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- Comedy
- Norman Lear
- 1971-02-19
Nov 15, 2013 · A Thanksgiving get-together for the eccentric Turner clan, presided over by eminent scholar and patriarch Poppy (Peter Bogdanovich), turns into a disastrous holiday weekend when black sheep daughter Nina (Alicia Witt) pays her first visit home in 15 years.
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- Will Slocombe
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- Alicia Witt
The film, the work of TV sit-com legend Norman Lear, is a savage satire of the American tobacco industry, as well as the TV news community (Comic Ray Goulding appears in one scene as "Walter Chronic" in a parody of TV news anchor Walter Cronkite, with a florescent lamp behind his head, forming an angelic halo).
Cold Turkey is a 1971 satirical comedy film. It stars Dick Van Dyke plus a long list of comedic actors. The film was directed, co-produced and co-written by Norman Lear and is based on the unpublished novel I'm Giving Them Up for Good by Margaret and Neil Rau.
