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Is Friendship a Pro-Cigarette Movie?
“There’s something just classic about smoking,” says director Andrew DeYoung.
When Austin (Paul Rudd) and Craig (Tim Robinson) hang out for the first time in Andrew DeYoung’s feature debut, Friendship, the two men go on a little adventure. Whereas many suburbanites would be content with a beer or watching a game, Austin instead leads Craig down into the sewers of their suburb of Clovis, winding through dank tunnels, only to arrive inside city hall. You see all kinds of cloudy cigarette smoke in period pieces, but present-day smokers are few and far between, in part because the Motion Picture Association has tamped down on cigarette-smoking onscreen.
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