Also Known As: Traffik
Company: Bedford Falls Productions / Compulsion Inc. / Initial Entertainment Group (IEG)
Aspect Ratio: 1.85 : 1
Plot: A modern day look at America's war on drugs told through four separate stories that are connected in one way or another. A conservative judge who's just been appointed as the US drug czar learns that his teenage honor student daughter is a drug addict. A beautiful trophy wife struggles to save her wealthy husband's drug business, while two DEA agents protect a witness with inside knowledge of the spouse's business. In Mexico, a slightly corrupt, yet dedicated cop struggles with his conscience when he learns that his new boss may not be the anti-drug official he made himself out to be.
Cast and Character: Benicio Del Toro as Javier Rodriguez / Jacob Vargas as Manolo Sanchez / Andrew Chavez as Desert Truck Driver / Michael Saucedo as Desert Truck Driver / Tomas Milian as General Arturo Salazar / Jose Yenque as Salazar Soldier / The Torturer / Emilio Rivera as Salazar Soldier #2 / Michael O'Neill as Lawyer Rodman / Michael Douglas as Robert Wakefield / Russell G. Jones as Clerk / Lorene Hetherington as State Capitol Reporter #1 / Eric Collins as State Capitol Reporter #2 / Beau Holden as DEA Agent - CalTrans / Peter Stader as DEA Agent - CalTrans / James Lew as DEA Agent - CalTrans
Trailer: n/A
Creators: n/A
Description: A conservative judge is appointed by the President to spearhead America's escalating war against drugs, only to discover that his teenage daughter is an addict.
Directors: Steven Soderbergh
Genres: Crime / Drama / Thriller
Location: A-1 Self Storage, 1190-B W. Morena Boulevard, San Diego, California, USA
MPAA: Rated R for pervasive drug content, strong language, violence and some sexuality
Opening Weekend: £1,245,665
Poster: posters/0181865.jpg
Rating: 7.7
Release Date: 5 January 2001 (USA)
Runtime: 147 min
Seasons: n/A
Sound Mix: DTS / Dolby Digital / SDDS
Tagline: No One Gets Away Clean
Title: Traffic
Trailer:
Url: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181865/
Votes: 135,663
Writers: Simon Moore / Stephen Gaghan
Year: 2000
Traffic got rated 7.7.
About the movie: A modern day look at America's war on drugs told through four separate stories that are connected in one way or another. A conservative judge who's just been appointed as the US drug czar learns that his teenage honor student daughter is a drug addict. A beautiful trophy wife struggles to save her wealthy husband's drug business, while two DEA agents protect a witness with inside knowledge of the spouse's business. In Mexico, a slightly corrupt, yet dedicated cop struggles with his conscience when he learns that his new boss may not be the anti-drug official he made himself out to be.
Touch of Evil got rated 8.2.
About the movie: Mexican Narcotics officer Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas has to interrupt his honeymoon on the Mexican-US border when an American building contractor is killed after someone places a bomb in his car. He's killed on the US side of the border but it's clear that the bomb was planted on the Mexican side. As a result, Vargas delays his return to Mexico City where he has been mounting a case against the Grandi family crime and narcotics syndicate. Police Captain Hank Quinlan is in charge on the US side and he soon has a suspect, a Mexican named Manolo Sanchez. Vargas is soon onto Quinlan and his Sergeant, Pete Menzies, when he catches them planting evidence to convict Sanchez. With his new American wife, Susie, safely tucked away in a hotel on the US side of the border - or so he thinks - he starts to review Quinlan's earlier cases. While concentrating on the corrupt policeman however, the Grandis have their own plans for Vargas and they start with his wife Susie.
To Kill a Mockingbird got rated 8.4.
About the movie: Based on Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize winning book of 1961. Atticus Finch is a lawyer in a racially divided Alabama town in the 1930s. He agrees to defend a young black man who is accused of raping a white woman. Many of the townspeople try to get Atticus to pull out of the trial, but he decides to go ahead. How will the trial turn out - and will it change any of the racial tension in the town ?
The 39 Steps got rated 7.9.
About the movie: Richard Hannay is a Canadian visitor to London. At the end of "Mr Memory"'s show in a music hall, he meets Annabella Smith who is running away from secret agents. He accepts to hide her in his flat, but in the night she is murdered. Fearing he could be accused on the girl's murder, Hannay goes on the run to break the spy ring.
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