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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Brand: DEPP,JOHNNY EAN: 0794043528422 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC Label: New Line Home Video Manufacturer: New Line Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: New Line Home Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: September 11, 2001 Running Time: 124 minutes Studio: New Line Home Video Theatrical Release Date: 2001 Sales Rank: 646 MPN: TRNDN5284D
Description: Based on a true story, Blow gives us a fast-paced look at the quick rise and fall of George Jung (Johnny Depp) who became a premier importer of Colombian cocaine, in the turbulent 1970's, forever changing the face of drugs in America.
DVD Features: Audio Commentary DVD ROM Features DVD ROM exclusive web site Documentary Filmographies Music Video Outtakes Production Notes Theatrical Trailer
Amazon.com: A briskly paced hybrid of Boogie Nights and Goodfellas, Blow chronicles the three-decade rise and fall of George Jung (Johnny Depp), a normal American kid who makes a personal vow against poverty, builds a marijuana empire in the '60s, multiplies his fortune with the Colombian Medellín cocaine cartel, and blows it all with a series of police busts culminating in one final, long-term jail sentence. "Your dad's a loser," says this absentee father to his estranged but beloved daughter, and he's right: Blow is the story of a nice guy who made wrong choices all his life, almost single-handedly created the American cocaine trade, and got exactly what he deserved. As directed by Ted Demme, the film is vibrantly entertaining, painstakingly authentic... and utterly aimless in terms of overall purpose.
We can't sympathize with Jung's meteoric rise to wealth and the wild life, and Demme isn't suggesting that we should idolize a drug dealer. So what, exactly, is the point of Blow? Simply, it seems, to present Jung's story as the epitome of the coke-driven glory days, and to suggest, ever so subtly, that Jung isn't such a bad guy, after all. Anyone curious about his lifestyle will find this film amazing, and there's plenty of humor mixed with the constant threat of violence and paranoid anxiety. Demme has also populated the film with a fantastic supporting cast (although Penélope Cruz grows tiresome as Jung's hedonistic wife), and this is certainly a compelling look at the other side of Traffic. Still, one wishes that Blow had a more viable reason for being; like a wild party, it leaves you with a hangover and a vague feeling of regret. --Jeff Shannon
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Crime does not pay. No honor among thieves. A very good life lesson based on a true story
The story is interesting and engaging from the beginning till the end.
It's a very good life lesson based on a true story. It showed a "big" drug dealer can make tons of money. However it also shows ... Read More
Rating: - Oh Black Betty...
This movie is simply awsome!!! If you are a fan of Entourage and you have seen the Medelin episodes, then you have something great to compare this too. Blow is to Medelin episodes as BLOW is to sleep...
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Rating: - "One of the best"
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When I first watched blow I was blown away by the story line it's just incredible. The man of gorge Jung who persuade happiness or though he thought. It shows ... Read More
Rating: - Arrogance and betrayal
This film takes a great pleasure in depicting a mediocre criminal, a drug dealer actually, who considers himself a hero, a genius and maybe even a god on earth. His initial success he analyzes as his own and does ... Read More
Rating: - One of my favorites
The movie is one of my favorites but in the bonus features I would have liked to hear more of George Jung's thoughts and stories.
- Oh Black Betty...