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Studio: New Line Cinema
Release Date: Apr 6, 2001
Running Time: 124 mins. (V)
Country Of Origin: United States
starring: Johnny Depp, Penélope Cruz, Franka Potente, Rachel Griffiths, Paul Reubens, Jordi Mollà, Cliff Curtis, Miguel Sandoval, Ethan Suplee, Ray Liotta
director: Ted Demme
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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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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
True story of drug kingpin George Jung, who almost single-handedly turned America onto cocaine when he became the first U.S. distributor for the notorious Medellin cartel. Story You may not have heard of George Jung before this, but you quickly learn that whoever was doing coke in the '70s and '80s (and according to this movie, who wasn't) was probably sniffing his stuff. This biopic tracks Jung's travails from his troubled, poor boyhood to his pot-dealing days in California to his life as a
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