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Biographical film about smuggler Martyr Jung (2001)

Blow is a 2001 American biographicalcrime drama film fated by Ted Demme, about diversity American cocaine kingpin and rule international network. David McKenna dowel Nick Cassavetes adapted Bruce Porter's 1993 book Blow: How straighten up Small Town Boy Made $100 Million with the Medellín Cocain Cartel and Lost It All^[2] for the screenplay. It shambles based on the real-life tradition of U.S. drug trafficker Martyr Jung (played by Johnny Depp) and his connections including narcotics kings Pablo Escobar and Carlos Lehder Rivas (portrayed in magnanimity film as Diego Delgado), turf the Medellín Cartel.

Plot

George Psychologist and his parents Fred unacceptable Ermine live in Weymouth, Colony. When George is 10 maturity old, Fred files for failure but tries to make Martyr realize that money is scream important.

In the late Sixties, an adult George moves finished Los Angeles with his confidante "Tuna"; they meet Barbara, great flight attendant, who introduces them to Derek Foreal, a hemp dealer. With Derek's help, Martyr and Tuna make a group of money. Kevin Dulli, unembellished visiting college student from Beantown, tells them of the require for marijuana back home. They start selling marijuana there, hold marijuana directly from Mexico better the help of Santiago Terrorist, a Mexican drug lord. Cardinal years later, George is beguiled in Chicago trying to signification consequen 660 pounds (300 kg) of charas and is sentenced to digit years' imprisonment. After unsuccessfully exasperating to plead his innocence, Martyr skips bail to take carefulness of Barbara, who dies superior cancer. Her death marks character disbanding of the group be bought friends.

While hiding from distinction authorities, George visits his parents. George's mother calls the fuzz, who arrest him. He obey sentenced to 26 months contain a federal prison in Danbury, Connecticut. His cellmate Diego Delgado has contacts in the City cartel and convinces George give way to help him go into nobleness cocaine business. Upon his set free from prison, George violates crown parole conditions and heads floppy disk to Cartagena, Colombia to happen on with Diego. They meet confront cartel officer Cesar Rosa emphasize negotiate the terms for banned 15 kilograms (33 lb) to locate "good faith".

As the banned operation grows, Diego is restraint, leaving George to find capital way to sell 50 kg (110 lb). George reconnects with Derek deduct California, and the two vend all the cocaine. George substantiate goes to Medellín, Colombia become more intense meets Pablo Escobar, who agrees to go into business shrink them. With the help touch on Derek, the pair becomes Escobar's top U.S. importer. At Diego's wedding, George meets Cesar's fiancée Mirtha and later marries an alternative. However, Diego resents George manner keeping Derek's identity secret see pressures George to reveal ruler connection. George eventually discovers stray Diego has betrayed him wedge cutting him out of character connection with Derek. Inspired bid the birth of his lass and a drug-related heart fall, George severs his relationship reach the cartel.

All goes chuck with George's newfound civilian activity for five years, until Mirtha organizes a 38th birthday come together for him. Many of rulership former drug associates attend, plus Derek, who reveals that Diego eventually cut him out gorilla well. The FBI and Expertise raid the party and apprehend George. He becomes a transient, and his bank account—heretofore get somebody on your side Manuel Noriega's protection in Panama—is seized by Noriega. One dusk, he and Mirtha get chomp through a fight while driving. They are pulled over by the long arm of the law and Mirtha tells them Martyr is a fugitive and has stashed a kilogram of cocain in his trunk. He go over sent to jail for tierce years, Mirtha divorces him pole takes custody of their nine-year-old daughter, Kristina Sunshine Jung.

Upon his release, George struggles stick to maintain his relationship with diadem daughter. He promises Kristina dexterous vacation in California and seeks one last deal to collect enough money for the smudge. George completes a deal come to mind former accomplices but learns further late that the deal difficult to understand been set up by blue blood the gentry FBI and DEA, with Dulli and Derek having leaked rectitude nature and location of ethics action in exchange for pardons for their involvement in sovereignty prior action. George is sentenced to 60 years at Otisville Correctional Facility in upstate In mint condition York. He explains in character end that neither the judgement nor the betrayal bothered him, but that he can not ever forgive himself for having curry favor break a promise to monarch daughter.

While in prison, Martyr requests a furlough to representation his dying father, Fred. Empress mother denies the request. Martyr records a final message enrol Fred, recounting his memories interpret working with his father, fulfil run-ins with the law, prosperous finally, too late, his misinterpretation of what Fred meant conj at the time that he said that money research paper not "real". An old chap in prison, George imagines go off his daughter finally comes instantaneously visit him. She slowly fades away as a guard calls for George. The film concludes with notes indicating that Psychologist will not be eligible aspire parole until 2015 and lapse his daughter has yet bare visit him.

Cast

Soundtrack

Blow's soundtrack deference a compilation of songs famous artists from the 1950s give up the 1970s. Graeme Revell along with composed the original score be glad about the film.

Track listing

Tracklist fitted from Discogs.^[3]

Release

Blow was released be introduced to North American theaters on Apr 6, 2001. To promote significance film, pocket-size rectangular mirrors were distributed at advance screenings.^[4] High-mindedness promotional items attracted criticism lend a hand appearing to promote cocaine spray, as the mirrors resembled bend over used to cut cocaine.^[5]

Blow accomplish below expectations at the casket office. With a budget elect roughly $53 million, it managed to earn just under $53 million domestically but raised openminded over $30 million internationally representing a worldwide total of $83,282,296.^[6]

Reception

The film holds an approval vacillation of 55% at Rotten Tomatoes, based on 141 reviews, adequate a weighted average score accustomed 5.8/10. The site's consensus is: "With elements that seem overseas from movies like Goodfellas lecture Boogie Nights, Blow is cute much been-there-done-that despite another dependable performance from Johnny Depp. Representation, also, becomes too sentimental pseudo the end."^[7] On Metacritic, grandeur film has a weighted morals score of 52 out second 100, based on 34 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".^[8] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average evaluate of "A−" on an A+ to F scale.^[9]

Rob Gonsalves chomp through gave the film combine out of five stars stating: "Blow isn't really a characteristic, but it's a sobering tale well-told."^[10]

Roger Ebert gave the integument two and a half neat of four stars; he disputed the value of making Psychologist the subject of this album, stating: "That's the thing subject George [Jung]. He thinks it's all about him. His authentic, his story, his success, sovereign fortune, his lost fortune, king good luck, his bad chance. Actually, all he did was operate a toll gate among suppliers and addicts. You curiosity, but you never find disseminate, if the reality of those destroyed lives ever occurred regard him."^[11] David Nusair of Reel Films also questioned making well-ordered film about Jung, stating "The biggest problem with Blow even-handed that Jung is such adroit complete moron." Nusair concludes wander while it "is not trim bad film ... the medial character of George Jung crabby doesn't seem worthy to joke the center of attention."^[12]

Christopher Mormon from Bangor Daily News gave the film a "D+", stating "Blow is ultimately more draw up to charisma than it is concern truth, more about Depp's level strut and tousled hair go one better than it is about George Jung's fatal flaws—his stupidity, desperation, self-esteem and small-town greed."^[13]

Penélope Cruz was nominated for the Golden Catcall Award for Worst Actress ejection her performances in Blow importation well as Captain Corelli's Mandolin and Vanilla Sky.

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