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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 The film was directed, coproduced and cowritten by Norman Lear and is based on the unpublished novel I'm Giving Them Up for Good by Margaret and Neil Rau. In the film, a tobacco company offers tax-free money to any American populated place whose entire population can go cold turkey for a month. The offer is a publicity stunt, and the company does not expect anyone to take on the challenge. But an impoverished town in Iowa takes on the challenge, in hopes or reversing its rapid population decline. Its citizens start struggling with their shared addiction. The film was produced in 1969 but was shelved for two years by the distributor over concerns about its box-office potential. Plot 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 convinces the Valiant Tobacco Company to propose a challenge: a tax-free check for $25,000,000 ($ million today) to any city or town in America that can stop smoking, going cold turkey, for thirty days.

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Notable quotes

“Be kind. Don't kill for any reason. Don't even kill out of self-defense. Really — I mean that. Don't take any more than you need of anything. Help others.”
— From a speech given on 20 January 1969 at the University of Michigan, about two months before Slaughterhouse Five was published, as reported in "A very new kind of WIR [Writer in Residence]" by Daniel Okrent, feature editor, The Michigan Daily (21 January 1969), pp. 1–2
“You know, in a way I wish I hadn't met you two. It's much more convenient to think of the opposition as a nice homogeneous, dead-wrong mass. Now I've got to muddy my thinking with exceptions.”
— Chapter 9 (p. 91)
“It was a marvelous engine for doing violence to the spirit of thousands of laws without actually running afoul of so much as a city ordinance.”
— Chapter 3 "United Hotcake Preferred" (p. 78)
“I never knew a writer's wife who wasn't beautiful.”
— Preface (p. xi)
“I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, "Please — a little less love, and a little more common decency."”
— Prologue
“In the nightmare of a warring world, it takes peculiar skills to get along.”
— Story: "The commandant's desk" - p.193

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

Cold Turkey is a 1971 satirical black comedy film starring Dick Van Dyke and a long list of comedic actors. The film was directed, coproduced and cowritten by Norman Lear and is based on the unpublished novel I'm Giving Them Up for Good by Margaret and Neil Rau.

Overview

Cold Turkey is a 1971 satirical black comedy film starring Dick Van Dyke and a long list of comedic actors. The film was directed, coproduced and cowritten by Norman Lear and is based on the unpublished novel I'm Giving Them Up for Good by Margaret and Neil Rau. In the film, a tobacco company offers tax-free money to any American populated place whose entire population can go cold turkey for a month. The offer is a publicity stunt, and the company does not expect anyone to take on the challenge. But an impoverished town in Iowa takes on the challenge, in hopes or reversing its rapid population decline. Its citizens start struggling with their shared addiction. The film was produced in 1969 but was shelved for two years by the distributor over concerns about its box-office potential. Plot 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 convinces the Valiant Tobacco Company to propose a challenge: a tax-free check for $25,000,000 ($ million today) to any city or town in America that can stop smoking, going cold turkey, for thirty days.

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Not who you're looking for? Others named Cold Turkey: single · method of ending substance dependence by abrupt, complete ce · 1951 Disney film by Charles August Nichols · 2013 film directed by Will Slocombe

Notable quotes

“Be kind. Don't kill for any reason. Don't even kill out of self-defense. Really — I mean that. Don't take any more than you need of anything. Help others.”
— From a speech given on 20 January 1969 at the University of Michigan, about two months before Slaughterhouse Five was published, as reported in "A very new kind of WIR [Writer in Residence]" by Daniel Okrent, feature editor, The Michigan Daily (21 January 1969), pp. 1–2
“You know, in a way I wish I hadn't met you two. It's much more convenient to think of the opposition as a nice homogeneous, dead-wrong mass. Now I've got to muddy my thinking with exceptions.”
— Chapter 9 (p. 91)
“It was a marvelous engine for doing violence to the spirit of thousands of laws without actually running afoul of so much as a city ordinance.”
— Chapter 3 "United Hotcake Preferred" (p. 78)
“I never knew a writer's wife who wasn't beautiful.”
— Preface (p. xi)
“I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, "Please — a little less love, and a little more common decency."”
— Prologue
“In the nightmare of a warring world, it takes peculiar skills to get along.”
— Story: "The commandant's desk" - p.193

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

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