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Intertwining tales of America's war on drugs. One story touches on the man appointed to control the programme only to find that his daughter is a heroine addict. Another finds the wife of a jailed drugs baron trying control a business her husband had hidden from her...

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ProducerEdward Zwick, Marshall Herskovitz, Laura Bickford

EAN5017239191077

eBay Product ID (ePID)3953151

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ActorTopher Grace, Catherine Zeta-Jones, James Brolin, Miguel Ferrer, Don Cheadle, Amy Irving, Salma Hayek, Dennis Quaid, Majandra Delfino, Michael Douglas, Jacob Vargas, Albert Finney, Steven Bauer, Marisol Padilla Sanchez, Clifton Collins, Peter Riegert, Tomas Milian, Erika Christensen, Benjamin Bratt, Luis Guzman, Benicio del Toro

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DirectorSteven Soderbergh

LanguageEnglish

Run Time147 Mins

FormatDVD

Release Year2007

FeaturesDeleted Scenes\Theatrical Trailers\B Roll\Soundbites

GenreDrama, General

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Number of Discs1

Certificate18

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States of America

ComposerCliff Martinez

Executive ProducerGraham King, Andreas Klein, Richard Solomon, Mike Newell, Cameron Jones

Art DirectorKeith P. Cunningham

Costume DesignerLouise Frogley

Sound sourceDolby Digital 5.1

Director of PhotographySteven Soderbergh

Production DesignerPhilip Messina

ReviewsEntertainment Weekly - Ranked #3 in Entertainment Weekly's "Owen Gleiberman's BEST MOVIES OF 2000", Hollywood Reporter - ...A mosaic of heightened reality....A picture fascinating in its complexit....The technical contributions are adroit and stylish..., Los Angeles Times - ...Complex and ambitious....Yet another indication of how accomplished a filmmaker Steven Soderbergh has become..., Box Office - ...Soderbergh deftly weaves together four stories depicting the causes and effects of the illegal drug trade..., USA Today - "...[A] consistently credible drama..." -- 3 out of 4 stars, New York Times - Steven Soderbergh's great, despairing squall of a film [infuses] epic cinematic form with jittery new rhythms and a fresh, acid-washed palette....The performances, by an ensemble from which not a false note issues, have the clarity and force of pithy instrumental solos insistently piercing through a dense cacaphony..., Total Film - "...Multi-layered plotting and plenty of pleasing technical flourishes....Douglas is superb..." -- 4 out of 5 stars, Sight and Sound - ...Its vigorous, unjaded rush of imagery and story makes for an exciting visual experience..., Premiere - ...The whole thing feels remarkably fresh, vibrant and new....The movie is adult, intelligent, sweeping yet intimate, nail-bitingly suspenseful, buoyed by an impeccable, uniformly powerhouse cast, and it provides a real perspective on a real issue...

Additional InformationSteven Soderbergh followed up his critical and commercial smash ERIN BROCKOVICH with this wildly exhilarating exploration of the complex, multilayered international drug problem. The film tells three seemingly disparate stories that loosely intersect and overlap, unfurling at a frantic, relentless pace. In the first, a well-intentioned Mexican police officer, Javier Rodriguez Rodriguez (Benicio Del Toro), comes face-to-face with the hypocrisy and hopelessness of his situation after he learns that his superior, General Salazar (Tomas Milian), isn't the law-abiding officer he claims to be. In the second, Robert Wakefield (Michael Douglas), a conservative Supreme Court judge from Ohio, takes a position as the president's new drug czar. What he doesn't realize is that his teenage daughter, Caroline (Erika Christensen), is falling prey to the dangerous narcotics that he has been hired to eradicate. In the third section, federal agents Montel Gordon (Don Cheadle) and Ray Castro (Luis Guzman) are baby-sitting Eduardo Ruiz (Miguel Ferrer), a drug smuggler who is about to testify against the wealthy Carlos Ayala (Steven Bauer). When Ayala's pregnant wife, Helena (Catherine Zeta-Jones), learns of her husband's illegal activities, she takes her family's future into her own hands. Soderbergh's bold decision to photograph the film using three strikingly different visual schemes adds even greater punch to TRAFFIC, which stands firmly as one of 2000's most stirring motion picture events.

AwardsBest Director 2001 - Steven Soderbergh, Best Actor In A Supporting Role 2001 - Benicio Del Toro, Best Screenplay (Adapted) 2000 - Stephen Gaghan, Best Supporting Actor 2000 - Benicio Del Toro, Best Screenplay Based On Material Previously Produced Or Published 2001 - Stephen Gaghan

ScreenwriterStephen Gaghan

AuthorSimon Moore

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EditorStephen Mirrione