Blow

Name: Blow
Director: Ted Demme
Released: 2001

Ted Demme

2001

3.00

Synopsis

A boy named George Jung grows up in a struggling family in the 1950's. His mother nags at her husband as he is trying to make a living for the family. It is finally revealed that George's father cannot make a living and the family goes bankrupt. George does not want the same thing to happen to him, and his friend Tuna, in the 1960's, suggests that he deal marijuana. He is a big hit in California in the 1960's, yet he goes to jail, where he finds out about the wonders of cocaine. As a result, when released, he gets rich by bringing cocaine to America. However, he soon pays the price.

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Johnny DeppGeorge Jung
Penélope CruzMirtha Jung
Franka PotenteBarbara Buckley
Rachel GriffithsErmine Jung
Paul ReubensDerek Foreal
Jordi MollàDiego Delgado
Cliff CurtisPablo Escobar
Max PerlichKevin Dulli
Miguel SandovalAugusto Oliveras
Ethan SupleeTuna

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75
USA Today
Consistently compelling without being truly memorable.
70
New Times (L.A.)
It's basically your above-average nice drug movie.
50
Philadelphia Inquirer
The real problem is that there's nothing to George but the movie's props.
50
Chicago Reader
Only Depp and Ray Liotta (as Jung's father) manage to animate this tired formula.
50
Newsweek
When George’s fortunes start to go from bad to worse, so does the movie.
50
Wall Street Journal
A textbook case of a film that's befuddled by its subject.
50
Salon
Depp aside, the movie is higher on style than it is on substance.
50
Boston Globe
Blew its chance to be an epic drug opera. It's only nostril-deep.

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