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Warner Bros. Pictures
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Studio: New Line Cinema
Release Date: Apr 6, 2001
Running Time: 124 mins. (V)
Country Of Origin: United States
synopsis
Based on the true story of how powder cocaine turned into America's biggest drug problem and how one man from the blue-collar suburbs became the 35 billion-dollar-a-year conduit to the Colombian cartels. George Jung pursued what he thought was the American Dream. Rather than become just another construction worker like his father, George moves to California where he discovers the profitable pleasures of selling marijuana. A spell in prison introduces him to big-time Colombian dealers, and soon George is involved with their plan to export tons of cocaine to American shores. He becomes fabulously wealthy, but takes a dizzying fall that knocks him out of the underworld.
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George Jung
Mirtha Jung
Barbara Buckley
Ermine Jung
Derek Foreal
Diego Delgado
Escobar
Augusto Oliveras
Tuna
Fred Jung
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Johnny Depp might just get an Oscar nod next year for his performance as a regular guy who turns into the foremost drug distributor in U.S. history. But in all honesty, he's startlingly one-note (couldn't he change his facial expression just once? A millionaire drug dealer must have had fun sometime). Ray Liotta and Rachel Griffiths are terribly miscast as his parents (which one is Depp supposed to take after?), although Liotta is quite good as Jung's heartbroken but accepting father. Penélope… 
March 15, 2001
Go for broke. That's what small-town New England hick George Jung did when he began smuggling Colombian cocaine into the U.S. and raked in more than $100 million during the 1980s as the gringo Pablo Escobar. And that's what Johnny Depp, who plays George, and Ted Demme, who directs this brazen biopic, do with "Blow." They've put their asses on the line for the true story of an indisputable scumbag. And they've wrapped that story in a fever dream of a film that tries like hell to encapsulate four…
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