The Blow (2001)
Runtime: 124 min
Country: USA
Directed by Ted Demme
Writing credits (WGA)
Bruce Porter (book)
David McKenna (screenplay) and
Nick Cassavetes (screenplay)
Produced by
Michael De Luca .... executive producer
Ted Demme .... producer
Tracy Falco .... associate producer
Georgia Kacandes .... executive producer
Denis Leary .... producer
Jose Ludlow .... line producer
Susan McNamara .... associate producer
Hillary Sherman .... associate producer
Joel Stillerman .... producer
Original Music by
Money Mark
Graeme Revell
Ronnie Van Zant (song "That Smell")
Nikka Costa (song "Push & Pull") (uncredited)
Justin Stanley (song "Push & Pull") (uncredited)
Genre: Crime / Drama
Cast (in credits order) complete, awaiting verification
Johnny Depp .... George Jung
Penelope Cruz .... Mirtha Jung
Franka Potente .... Barbara Buckley
Rachel Griffiths .... Ermine Jung
Paul Reubens .... Derek Foreal
Jordi Molla .... Diego Delgado
Cliff Curtis .... Pablo Escobar
Miguel Sandoval .... Augusto Oliveras
Ethan Suplee .... Tuna
Ray Liotta .... Fred Jung
Kevin Gage .... Leon Minghella
Max Perlich .... Kevin Dulli
Jesse James .... Young George
Miguel Perez .... Alessandro
Dan Ferro .... Cesar Toban
Plot Summary for Blow
George Jung is the son of a struggling small business owner.
Seeing his family struggle to make ends meet and failing, George vows never to share a similar fate. Moving to California, he starts his own pot pushing
operation in which he finds both success and imprisonment.
In prison, he meets a cellmate who introduces him into a partnership to the lucrative new market in cocaine. Upon release, George Jung quickly becomes instrumental in establishing the exploding US market for cocaine in which he claimed that he handled about 85% of the supply in the 1970's. However, for all the fabulous wealth and power
he gained, the true costs of his dangerously treacherous occupation catch up with him in ways from which would he never recover.
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