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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. Cold Turkey was based on the unpublished novel I'm Giving ...
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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Both of them assume as a matter of course that the human being is powered with unworthy motives, especially greed. "A New Leaf" gets a little sentimental at the end, but not too much, and "Cold Turkey" ends with the scoundrels being shot by their own cigarette lighter. The movie, as everybody knows by now, concerns an attempt by a small town in ...
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 corporate greed, manipulations of the broadcast media ...
Cold Turkey is 8852 on the JustWatch Daily Streaming Charts today. The movie has moved up the charts by 3844 places since yesterday. In the United States, it is currently more popular than The Professor and the Madman but less popular than Teenage Cocktail.
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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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Amidst a media frenzy, Eagle Rock, Iowa accepts the challenge while the company's PR man tries to sabotage the effort. 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 ...
