Thank You For Smoking (imdb | tiff) was a great way to end things. A great movie before a huge crowd on the last night (and second-to-last film) of the festival. It had amazing dark humour, criticisms of lobbying, politics, marketing & spin, even some nearly-heartfelt father-son stuff. It deservedly got picked up this week by Fox Searchlight. I’m glad it turned out to be our last film; what a way to go out.

Rating: 9 out of 10.
Star power: Director Jason Reitman (Ivan’s son).