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Directed by: Steven Soderbergh
Written by: Simon Moore (miniseries Traffik), Stephen Gaghan
(screenplay)
Filming dates: April 2000 - July 2000
Budget: $48m
US opening weekend: $184,725 (4 Screens)
Worldwide box office gross: $207m
US release date: December 27, 2000 (NY & LA), January 5 2001
(rest of US)
Rating: R (US), 15 (UK)
Taglines: No One Gets Away Clean.
Synopsis: Intertwining vignettes frame this tale of America's
escalating War on Drugs. Ohio Supreme Court judge Robert Wakefield has
been appointed the nation's Drug Czar, his new position made more
daunting by the discovery that his teenage daughter Caroline is a
heroin addict. Meanwhile, DEA agents Montel Gordon and Ray Castro are
pursuing Helena Ayala, wife of jailed kingpin Carlos Ayala, as she
seeks to the control the business that her husband had kept hidden
from her. South of the Border, duplicious local constable Javier
Rodriguez is fighting the battle with his own jaded, questionable
ethical code. (IMDB.com)
Cast: Steven Bauer (Carlos Ayala) Benjamin Bratt (Juan Obregón)
James Brolin (General Ralph Landry)
Don Cheadle (Agent Montel Gordon) Erika Christensen (Caroline
Wakefield) Clifton Collins Jr. (Francisco Flores/Frankie Flowers)
Benicio Del Toro (Officer Javier Rodriguez Rodriguez) Michael Douglas
(Drug Czar/Judge Robert 'Bob' Hudson Wakefield) Miguel Ferrer (Eduardo
Ruiz) Albert Finney (Chief
of Staff) Topher Grace (Seth Abrahams) Luis Guzmán (Agent Ray Castro)
Amy Irving (Barbara Wakefield) Tomas Milian (General Arturo Salazar)
D.W. Moffett (Jeff Sheridan) Dennis Quaid (Arnie Metzger) Peter
Riegert (Attorney Michael Adler) Jacob Vargas (Manolo Sanchez)
Catherine Zeta-Jones (Helena Ayala)
Steven on Traffic: "For me Traffic was the culmination of the
films that came before it. Everything I've learned on the films I've
made went into Traffic on every level. It called upon everything we
all had, every day. So getting through to the end of it was really
satisfying. Maybe because it was my tenth film, maybe because of the
scale of it, it is inarguably the most ambitious film that I've
attempted, but it really felt like the culmination of everything I've
done so far. I had never attempted a movie on that scale before that
was that overtly political. I mean, Erin's political, but in a
slightly different way. You know which side you're on when you're
watching Erin Brockovich. It's a pretty clear-cut case of these people
being betrayed by a corporation. There's not a lot of ambiguity in the
central issue. You cannot have mixed feelings about people being
poisoned. Traffic is not like that. Traffic is a movie with several
different points of view. Depending on who you are and what your
experiences are you can come out of the movie with a very different
idea of what you just saw than the guy behind you. I've already had
that experience in talking to people who've seen the film. It's been
hilarious to hear the different takes on the same movie." |
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