Starring: Tony Amendola, Penélope Cruz, Cliff Curtis, Johnny Depp, Dan Ferro Average Rating: Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC Label: New Line Home Video Number of Items: 1 Region Code: 1 Release Date: September 11, 2001 Running Time: 124 minutes Theatrical Release Date: 2001
Product Description: Dramatization of the life of George Jung, the man who established the cocaine market in the United States. Genre: Feature Film-Drama Rating: R Release Date: 14-SEP-2004 Media Type: DVD
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
worth watching once, I suppose Drug movies tend to bore me, and this one was no exception. I wasn't too into the narrative style, and Penelope Cruz put forth one of her worst performance to date, in my book, but let me clarify by saying I adore Penelope. Johnny Depp was good for the role, but someone else might have been able to bring more to the character.
not closed captioned I am a deaf person and I count on the Closed Captioning and subtitles to be able to enjoy a movie.
Even though Blow is listed as being Closed Captioned, this copy is not. A waste of my time and money.
What are you lokking at Mrs.Crazy,your son's no prize! Based on a true story for those of you who have lived on the moon, and it puts you on an emotional roller coaster of cocaine,money,greed,ect. I can't say too much and give spoil it for the few ppl who missed watching it but it just shows how important our children are & how we need to be careful what we say & do. This one of my Favorite movies & I watch it allot,it's in my kitchen dvd so I watch while I cook,Dinner & I just love Jonny Depp & Ray Liotta.
Johnny Depp is my hero Buy this movie if you want a good movie to watch. Simply put. Johnny Depp is awesome in this movie, he made me really believe that he was George Jung. This movie is a classic!
Snowing in California -- Penélope Cruz sold me on this one ! I watch all movies with Johnny Depp, but Penélope Cruz sold me on this one! I skimmed the info, but mostly purchased the film based upon the cover shot. When I watched the film, I felt my self drawn deeper and deeper into the story. The initial interest in Penélope Cruz subsided, as I became more an more interested in the escalating business practices of our hero played by Johnny Depp.
I was rooting for our Business man, throughout the film, and I think he got the shaft. I loved the movie until the end, but they were working with biographical material so they closed the story as best they could.
Suffice to say, this guy is no Scarface; he is just an entrepreneur who enjoys living it up. I think the guy should have made friends in Congress, so that he could have ended his run and kept his fancy homes, et al. C'est la vie.
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