Cold Turkey
1971 · Movie · 99 min. · United States
What happens when an evil tobacco company offers $25,000,000 to an entire town to stop smoking for thirty days? What happens when 4,006 heavy smokers from Eagle Rock, Iowa take up the challenge? 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 will a huge prize.
Direction Norman Lear
Cast Dick Van Dyke · Pippa Scott · Tom Poston · Edward Everett Horton · Bob Elliott · Ray Goulding · Vincent Gardenia · Barnard Hughes · Graham Jarvis · Jean Stapleton · Barbara Cason · Sudie Blond · Judith Lowry · Helen Page Camp · Paul Benedict
Soundtrack Randy Newman
Screenplay Norman Lear · William Price Fox Jr.
Cinematography Charles F. Wheeler
Original title Cold Turkey
5.8
150 votes (FilmAffinity)
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