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Traffic (DVD, 2007)
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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...Product Identifiers
ProducerEdward Zwick, Marshall Herskovitz, Laura Bickford
EAN5017239191077
eBay Product ID (ePID)3953151
Product Key Features
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
Film/TV TitleTraffic
DirectorSteven Soderbergh
LanguageEnglish
Run Time147 Mins
FormatDVD
Release Year2007
FeaturesDeleted Scenes\Theatrical Trailers\B Roll\Soundbites
GenreDrama, General
Additional Product Features
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
Movie/TV TitleTraffic
EditorStephen Mirrione
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- 14 Nov, 2024
Soderberg's panoramic film of the US drug problem in 2000, from Mexican suppliers to the Presidential drug czar.
Soderberg's ambitious film from 2000 attempts to describe the US drug problem, from Mexican producers to Senatorial committees, with high--school users and law enforcement in between. Douglas and Del Toro each make a journey of discovery, from different sides of the border, educating us along the way. At the end of the film, Soderberg appears to conclude that enforcement is impossible, and that the solution must involve understanding and helping users. In so doing, he somewhat dismisses the arguments of 6 real-life senators appearing in early scenes. Douglas is a Mid-West judge, appointed by the president to be the new US drug czar. He begins by visiting the border, at El Paso/Juarez, to try to understand the enforcement issues. Back in Washington, he finds that he is expected to follow a party line. However, he suddenly discovers that his 17-year-old daughter is a serious user, and that his wife has winked at her behavious for months, judging it a `college phase'. As the daughter's problems worsen, he finds the party line inadequate to her needs, and resigns his position to care for her. Del Toro is an able, active, but woefully-paid Mexican border policeman, keen to catch the really bad guys. However, he is forced to commit minor scams on joy-seeking US tourists in order to pay rent. A general, in charge of Mexican enforcement, appoints him to his team. However, Del Toro rapidly finds that the general preferentially acts against a Juarez drug lord in order to advantage the Tijuana cartel. In order to do the most good, and to get paid more, he starts to work with US enforcement. Other main characters include Catherine Zeta-Jones, as the priveleged and unscrupulous wife of a San Diego drug lord, and a variety of US drug enforcement officers. Overall, this is slightly more drama than documentary, but there is still an educational and slightly campaigning feel to the film. Quite violent, big--budget, and entertaining. Sadly, the problem is no better a quarter of a century later.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 02 Jun, 2024
All good
All goodVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 06 Dec, 2024
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