Traffic
Director: Steven Soderbergh; Stars: Michael Douglas, Benicio Del Toro, Catherine Zeta-Jones; Release Date: March 07, 2006 |
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Traffic - Steven Soderbergh followed up his critical and commercial smash ERIN BROCKOVICH with this wildly exhilarating exploration of the complex, multilayered international drug problem. The film tells three seemingly disparate stories that loosely intersect and overlap, unfurling at a frantic, relentless pace. In the first, a well-intentioned Mexican police officer, Javier Rodriguez Rodriguez (Benicio Del Toro), comes face-to-face with the hypocrisy and hopelessness of his situation after he learns that his superior, General Salazar (Tomas Milian), isn't the law-abiding officer he claims to be. In the second, Robert Wakefield (Michael Douglas), a conservative Supreme Court judge from Ohio, takes a position as the president's new drug czar. What he doesn't realize is that his teenage daughter, Caroline (Erika Christensen), is falling prey to the dangerous narcotics that he has been hired to eradicate. In the third section, federal agents Montel Gordon (Don Cheadle) and Ray Castro (Luis Guzm?n) are baby-sitting E...
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Key Information |
| Directors | Steven Soderbergh |
| Stars | Catherine Zeta-Jones |
| Actors | Clifton Collins Jr. |
| Genre | Dramas |
| Subgenre | Social Issues • Cri |
| MPAA Rating | R (MPAA) |
| Available Formats | DVD: Universal Reissue |
| UPC | 696306018124 |
| Release Date | 2000 |
| Running Time | 2hr 27min |
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Languages |
| Original Language | Spanish |
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DVD Editions |
| DVD Editions | DVD: 2-Disc Set2hr 27minImage Entertainment, Inc.March 07, 2006R (MPAA)715515017220 |
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VHS Editions |
| VHS Editions | VHS: Spanish SubtitledUniversal Studios Home VideoFebruary 04, 2003R (MPAA)096896041234 |
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Credits |
| Screenwriter | Stephen Gaghan |
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Professional Reviews |
| Professional Reviews | (12/27/2000, pp.E1-E12, Stephen Holden): "Steven Soderbergh's great, despairing squall of a film [infuses] epic cinematic form with jittery new rhythms and a fresh, acid-washed palette....The performances, by an ensemble from which not a false note issues, have the clarity and force of pithy instrumental solos insistently piercing through a dense cacaphony..." |
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