Blow (2001)

Directed by

Ted Demme

Genre

drama film, prison film, biographical film, crime film

Country

United States

Runtime

2h 04m

Rated

R

Rating

7.4 of 10 from 4,633 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A biographical crime film about George Jung, a small town boy who becomes a major cocaine trafficker for the Medellin Cartel. It follows his rise to wealth and power, and his eventual fall.

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What happens

Blow is a 2001 American biographical crime drama film produced and directed by Ted Demme, about an American cocaine kingpin and his international network. David McKenna and Nick Cassavetes adapted Bruce Porter's 1993 book Blow: How a Small Town Boy Made $100 Million with the Medellín Cocaine Cartel and Lost It All for the screenplay. It is based on the real-life stories of U.S. drug trafficker George Jung (played by Johnny Depp) and his connections including narcotics kings Pablo Escobar and Carlos Lehder Rivas (portrayed in the film as Diego Delgado), and the Medellín Cartel. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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