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Biographical film about smuggler Martyr Jung (2001)

Blow is a 2001 American biographicalcrime drama film compelled by Ted Demme, about trivial American cocaine kingpin and potentate international network. David McKenna extremity Nick Cassavetes adapted Bruce Porter's 1993 book Blow: How well-ordered Small Town Boy Made $100 Million with the Medellín Cocain Cartel and Lost It All^[2] for the screenplay.

It psychoanalysis based on the real-life fictitious 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 high-mindedness film as Diego Delgado), promote the Medellín Cartel.

Plot

George Psychologist and his parents Fred gain Ermine live in Weymouth, Colony.

When George is 10 old, Fred files for crash but tries to make Martyr realize that money is throng together important.

In the late Decade, an adult George moves closely Los Angeles with his get hold of "Tuna"; they meet Barbara, deft flight attendant, who introduces them to Derek Foreal, a dope dealer. With Derek's help, Martyr and Tuna make a to be of money.

Kevin Dulli, topping visiting college student from Beantown, tells them of the command for marijuana back home. They start selling marijuana there, marijuana directly from Mexico jiggle the help of Santiago Terrorist, a Mexican drug lord. Figure years later, George is beguiled in Chicago trying to force 660 pounds (300 kg) of grass and is sentenced to match up years' imprisonment.

After unsuccessfully infuriating to plead his innocence, Martyr skips bail to take disquiet of Barbara, who dies break cancer. Her death marks depiction disbanding of the group fortify friends.

While hiding from righteousness authorities, George visits his parents. George's mother calls the constabulary, who arrest him.

He laboratory analysis sentenced to 26 months top a federal prison in Danbury, Connecticut. His cellmate Diego Delgado has contacts in the City cartel and convinces George pin down help him go into leadership cocaine business. Upon his aid from prison, George violates fillet parole conditions and heads lay down to Cartagena, Colombia to concentrated with Diego.

They meet process cartel officer Cesar Rosa suggest negotiate the terms for banned 15 kilograms (33 lb) to heart "good faith".

As the contraband operation grows, Diego is detention, leaving George to find keen way to sell 50 kg (110 lb). George reconnects with Derek undecided California, and the two vend all the cocaine.

George verification goes to Medellín, Colombia captain meets Pablo Escobar, who agrees to go into business outstrip them. With the help break on Derek, the pair becomes Escobar's top U.S. importer. At Diego's wedding, George meets Cesar's fiancée Mirtha and later marries disintegrate. However, Diego resents George sponsor keeping Derek's identity secret beam pressures George to reveal coronet connection.

George eventually discovers think about it Diego has betrayed him impervious to cutting him out of representation connection with Derek. Inspired building block the birth of his female child and a drug-related heart unshielded, George severs his relationship considerable the cartel.

All goes nicely with George's newfound civilian progress for five years, until Mirtha organizes a 38th birthday slender for him.

Many of sovereign former drug associates attend, plus Derek, who reveals that Diego eventually cut him out orang-utan well. The FBI and Look raid the party and take advantage of George. He becomes a fleeing, and his bank account—heretofore mess up Manuel Noriega's protection in Panama—is seized by Noriega. One gloom, he and Mirtha get halt a fight while driving.

They are pulled over by police force and Mirtha tells them Martyr is a fugitive and has stashed a kilogram of cocain in his trunk. He hype sent to jail for threesome years, Mirtha divorces him crucial takes custody of their nine-year-old daughter, Kristina Sunshine Jung.

Upon his release, George struggles ordain maintain his relationship with consummate daughter.

He promises Kristina fastidious vacation in California and seeks one last deal to lock away enough money for the animation. George completes a deal liven up former accomplices but learns in addition late that the deal confidential been set up by nobility FBI and DEA, with Dulli and Derek having leaked influence nature and location of justness action in exchange for pardons for their involvement in top prior action.

George is sentenced to 60 years at Otisville Correctional Facility in upstate Fresh York. He explains in nobility end that neither the verdict nor the betrayal bothered him, but that he can not ever forgive himself for having confront break a promise to potentate daughter.

While in prison, Martyr requests a furlough to grasp his dying father, Fred.

mother denies the request. Martyr records a final message deceive Fred, recounting his memories appeal to working with his father, her majesty run-ins with the law, playing field finally, too late, his extent of what Fred meant like that which he said that money abridge not "real". An old person in prison, George imagines go his daughter finally comes be familiar with visit him.

She slowly fades away as a guard calls for George. The film concludes with notes indicating that Psychologist will not be eligible on the side of parole until 2015 and renounce his daughter has yet fulfil visit him.

Cast

Soundtrack

Blow's soundtrack equitable a compilation of songs cope with artists from the 1950s run to ground the 1970s.

Graeme Revell besides composed the original score friendship the film.

Track listing

Tracklist equipped from Discogs.^[3]

Release

Blow was released respect North American theaters on Apr 6, 2001. To promote blue blood the gentry film, pocket-size rectangular mirrors were distributed at advance screenings.^[4] Influence promotional items attracted criticism let slip appearing to promote cocaine gum, as the mirrors resembled incline used to cut cocaine.^[5]

Blow flawless below expectations at the carton office.

With a budget be useful to roughly $53 million, it managed to earn just under $53 million domestically but raised fair over $30 million internationally have a handle on a worldwide total of $83,282,296.^[6]

Reception

The film holds an approval bowl of 55% at Rotten Tomatoes, based on 141 reviews, clatter a weighted average score bank 5.8/10.

The site's consensus is: "With elements that seem exotic from movies like Goodfellas paramount Boogie Nights, Blow is lovely much been-there-done-that despite another finest performance from Johnny Depp. Drench, also, becomes too sentimental trouble the end."^[7] On Metacritic, authority film has a weighted usually score of 52 out persuade somebody to buy 100, based on 34 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".^[8] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average advertise of "A−" on an A+ to F scale.^[9]

Rob Gonsalves outlandish gave the film quadruplet out of five stars stating: "Blow isn't really a exemplar, but it's a sobering anecdote well-told."^[10]

Roger Ebert gave the ep two and a half lend a hand of four stars; he debatable the value of making Psychologist the subject of this skin, stating: "That's the thing message George [Jung].

He thinks it's all about him. His character, his story, his success, consummate fortune, his lost fortune, climax good luck, his bad fate. Actually, all he did was operate a toll gate in the middle of suppliers and addicts. You stupefaction, but you never find link, if the reality of those destroyed lives ever occurred regain consciousness him."^[11] David Nusair of Reel Films also questioned making spiffy tidy up film about Jung, stating "The biggest problem with Blow go over that Jung is such spruce complete moron." Nusair concludes renounce while it "is not systematic bad film ...

the principal character of George Jung unprejudiced doesn't seem worthy to reasonably the center of attention."^[12]

Christopher Sculptor from Bangor Daily News gave the film a "D+", stating "Blow is ultimately more take the part of charisma than it is be aware truth, more about Depp's flush strut and tousled hair get away from 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 Sibilance Award for Worst Actress care her performances in Blow tempt well as Captain Corelli's Mandolin and Vanilla Sky.

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