Johnny Depp gives a spellbindingly naturalistic performance that puts a sympathetic face on a powerfully individualistic man unable to shake a world of crime that brought him immense riches and eventually cost him everything he caredabout.
Blow (2001)
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Reviews Counted:134
Fresh:73
Rotten:61
Average Rating:5.8/10
Consensus: With elements that seem borrowed from movies like Goodfellas and Boogie Nights, Blow is pretty much been-there-done-that despite another excellent performance from Johnny Depp. It, also, becomes too sentimental at the end.
Rated: R [See Full Rating] for pervasive drug content and language, some violence and sexuality
Runtime: 2 hrs 4 mins
Genre: Dramas
Theatrical Release:Apr 6, 2001 Wide
Box Office: $52,765,901
Synopsis: George Jung (Johnny Depp) doesn't want to live like his father (Ray Liotta)--always short of money and constantly berated by his mother (Rachel Griffiths). So he sets off for California to live on... George Jung (Johnny Depp) doesn't want to live like his father (Ray Liotta)--always short of money and constantly berated by his mother (Rachel Griffiths). So he sets off for California to live on the beach, where he finds he can make a living selling drugs. Soon George's drug dealing business expands into shipping drugs across the country. Needing a bigger supply of drugs, he travels to Columbia and meets Pablo Escobar (Cliff Curtis). Before long, George becomes the biggest trafficker of cocaine in the United States. In BLOW, director Ted Demme and scriptwriters Nick Cassevetes and David McKenna chart George's strange course into a world of girls and sun, drugs and fun. It's all so easy until events change George's life forever. Depp gives one of his best performances as George, instilling the character with a complicated mixture of emotions. For the supporting roles, Demme's eccentric casting includes German actress Franka Potente as George's girlfriend; Spanish actress Penélope Cruz as his wife; Australian actress Rachel Griffiths (who in real life is five years younger than Depp) as his withering mother; and Paul Reubens (in an excellent performance) as a hairdresser-cum-drug dealer. [More]
Starring: Johnny Depp, Penélope Cruz, Jordi Molla, Franka Potente
Starring: Johnny Depp, Penélope Cruz, Jordi Molla, Franka Potente, Rachel Griffiths, Ray Liotta, Ethan Suplee, Paul Reubens, Max Perlich, Jamie King, Emma Roberts
Director: Ted Demme
Director: Ted Demme
Screenwriter: Nick Cassavetes, David McKenna
Producer: Joel Stillerman, Denis Leary, Ted Demme
Studio: New Line Cinema
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Reviews for Blow
Does the movie make us care? Not really, which is the movie's basic problem.
Comes off like a flamboyant cartoon, another film about the deglamorization of glamorous people living it up in the glamorous world of drugs.
Johnny Depp stars and, despite some pretty awful makeup, nails his performance as George Jung.
Rambling and confused, the film shows much concern for plot and not enough for characterization, particularly in second half which unfolds as a catalog of events. Misdirected, the usually reliable Depp gives a confused and scattered performance.
Tiene una edición maravillosa, la fotografía es notable y la dirección bien lograda.
A worthy companion to Traffic, which isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, either.
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