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Mood:
- GloomyStylizedAtmosphericCaptivating
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Plot:
- Criminal HeroesGangstersBlind AmbitionDrug DealingRise and FallCouple RelationsAmbitionCrimes more...
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Genres:
- CrimeDramaPeriod
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Time/Period:
- 20th Century50s60s70s80s90s
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Place:
- CaliforniaColombiaMexico
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Audience:
- Boys' Night
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Style:
- Epic
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Based on:
- BiographyBased on True Story
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Attitudes:
- SeriousRealistic
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Flag:
- Drugs/AlcoholMild Violent ContentProfanitySexual Content
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Blow, 2001
English
USA
Profile of Blow
The mood of Blow is gloomy, stylized, and atmospheric. The plot centers around blind ambition, a rise and fall, and drug dealing. It is a drama, crime, and period movie. Stylistically, Blow is epic. In approach, it is serious and realistic. The setting is Colombia, Mexico, and California. Blow happens in the 1950s, in the 1960s, and in the 1980s. It is drawn from a biography and originally a true story. It is especially suggested for a boys' night. Note that Blow includes mild violent content, drugs/alcohol, and sexual content.
Summary of Blow
George Jung (Johnny Depp) doesn't want to live like his father (Ray Liotta)--always short of money and constantly berated by his mother (Rachel Griffiths). So he sets off for California to live on the beach, where he finds he can make a living selling drugs. Soon George's drug dealing business expands into shipping drugs across the country. Needing a bigger supply of drugs, he travels to Columbia and meets Pablo Escobar (Cliff Curtis). Before long, George becomes the biggest trafficker of cocaine in the United States. In Blow, director Ted Demme and scriptwriters Nick Cassevetes and David McKenna chart George's strange course into a world of girls and sun, drugs and fun. It's all so easy until events change George's life forever.
Depp gives one of his best performances as George, instilling the character with a complicated mixture of emotions. For the supporting roles, Demme's eccentric casting includes German actress Franka Potente as George's girlfriend; Spanish actress Penélope Cruz as his wife; Australian actress Rachel Griffiths (who in real life is five years younger than Depp) as his withering mother; and Paul Reubens (in an excellent performance) as a hairdresser-cum-drug dealer.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 29 March 2001 |
| Runtime: | 124 min |
Cast and Crew
as George Jung
as Mirtha Jung
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Critics Reviews
Film.com
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- by: Ernest Hardy
Variety
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- by: Dennis Harvey
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- 08.March.2011
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