This four-hour, six-episode British miniseries, broadcast on Channel 4 in 1989 and in America on PBS's Masterpiece Theatre in 1990, provided the basis for Traffic, Steven Soderbergh's 2000 Oscar winner. Though Soderbergh and screenwriter Stephen Gaghan borrowed much of their plot and structure from the original, Traffik focuses on the European drug trade instead of the American one and utilizes England, Germany, and Pakistan as its major settings. One of the three primary plot strands involves
Nov 11, 1993
All Critics (4) | Fresh (5) | Rotten (0) | DVD (7)
The original is still the best.
Often the source material is better, and this case is no exception.
Traffik I really enjoyed this mini series. If you have only seen Traffic you are doing yourself a disservice. The acting for the most part is really good. And the writing is outstanding. The story moves along nicely. I watched the whole thing in one evening and one morning and couldn't wait to see how it ended.
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