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Blow Details

2001

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Starring	Johnny Depp, Penelope Cruz, Franka Potente, Rachel Griffiths
Director	Ted Demme
Genres	Drama

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 Penelope 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.

Starring	Johnny Depp, Penelope Cruz, Franka Potente, Rachel Griffiths, Paul Reubens
Director	Ted Demme
Studio	ENTERTAINMENT IN VIDEO
Run time	DVD: 2 hrs 2 mins Blu-ray: 1 hr 58 mins
Certificate
Genres	Drama
Language	DVD: English Blu-ray: English
Released	Production year: 2001 To Rent: DVD: 19 Nov 2001 Blu-ray: 19 Nov 2001

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- Fitfully interesting drama, based on a true story, that sets a hectic pace its cast can hardly keep up with; it's a mad dash through pop culture, bland in texture before it stumbles to a halt.
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- - Halliwell's Film Guide
  - 02 Mar 2006 at 15:42
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  Sell weed, do time, sell coke, make money, live life - Blow
  
  Jonny Depp plays the role perfectly as per usual. An interesting true story of life, family, drugs, smuggling and decisions. Is it worth getting rich at any ... read more »
  
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  - Rob
  - Essex, England
  - 05 Oct 2004 at 20:31
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  Not the greatest drug film, but tells a good story
  
  This film is based on a true story, which definitely makes it more interesting. It tells a tale of trafficking in a time where it was greatly more difficult for... read more »
  
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  - 29 Oct 2011 at 21:26
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  glamourises drugs
  
  apparently you can have a nice life if you deal drugs , just end up with dodgy clothes and a bit of a pot belly- after about 30 years so no moralising in this ... read more »
  
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  - 19 Jul 2011 at 22:33
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  Good movie
  
  A good film. Johnny Depp is on top form. Even more interesting knowing it is based on a true story.
  
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  - 12 Jul 2011 at 17:56
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Depp pranked Pirates crew with fart machine
- 27 Mar 2011
Hollywood joker Johnny Depp caused a stink on the set of the latest Pirates Of The Caribbean movie - by using a fart machine to play pranks on the film crew. Penelope Cruz, who appears alongside Depp in the upcoming Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, first learned of the movie hunk's playful tendencies when they filmed drug drama Blow together in 2001. And she learned Depp was still up to his old tricks when she joined him onset for the fourth installment of the Disney franchise. She Read more
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  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 ...

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  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 ...