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Top Movies Eight Below Date Movie The Pink Panther Curious George Final Destination 3 Firewall Freedomland When a Stranger Calls Big Momma's House 2 Nanny McPhee New Releases Curious George Final Destination 3 Firewall The Pink Panther Date Movie Eight Below Freedomland Something New Failure to Launch When a Stranger Calls Top Celebs Reese Witherspoon Brad Pitt Paris Hilton Mariah Carey Lindsay Lohan Scarlett Johansson Phil Collins Britney Spears Angelina Jolie Jodie Marsh	Blow  Release Date - April 6, 2001 Nationwide  Distributor - New Line Cinema  Duration - 119 Mins  Type - Drama.(Rated R)  Writer : David McKenna and Nick Casavettes.  Producer : Ted Demme and Joel Stillerman.  Director : Ted Demme.  Starring : Johnny Depp, Penelope Cruz, Jordi Molla, Ray Liotta, Rachel Griffiths.  Synopsis Blow is a high-velocity look at George Jung’s spectacular rise and fall – based on the true story of how powder cocaine turned into America’s biggest drug problem and how one man from the blue-collar suburbs became the 35 billion-dollar a-year conduit to the Colombian cartels. Ted Demme (Monument Ave.) directs this riveting look at the manic allure – and dangerous reality – of a drug smuggler’s everyday life, and unfolds one of the great untold stories from the recent annals of American crime and culture.  Critic Reviews Directed by the newly serious Ted Demme (''Beautiful Girls''), from a script by David McKenna and Nick Cassavetes, who based it on Bruce Porter's nonfiction account of George Jung's life, ''Blow'' is a catchy and efficient entertainment, occasionally gripping in its detail; it's fun to see the deadpan dread with which Depp hustles a suitcase full of coke through the airport. Yet the film carries little in the way of passion or revelatory charge. It's like one of Scorsese's rock gilded, sliding camera gangster exposés remade as a TV movie. The George Jung we see in ''Blow'' is a deft and disciplined opportunist driven by a profit motive the counterculture has barely caught on to. Depp gives one of his ultracontrolled, no sweat performances, making it all but impossible to separate the character's mondo cool facade from the actor's. In prison after a bust, Jung meets Diego Delgado (Jordi Molla), a dealer who becomes his partner and hooks him up with the young, not-yet-legendary Escobar (Cliff Curtis), who agrees to have the two of them distribute his product throughout the U.S. Escobar is a formidable force -- he administers revenge murders like spankings -- but Jung's darkest challenge remains the sultry Mirtha (Penélope Cruz), a Colombian femme fatale who becomes his wife, his seething coke slut, and the mother of his beloved daughter. At times, Depp seems to be flirting with disco-era impassivity as a Method challenge. Jung, as a character, never commits an action we don't believe, yet there's nothing remarkable about him -- nothing screwy or starry-eyed or eccentric that would suggest a hero of tragic or even hauntingly humane dimensions. (Mark Wahlberg's Dirk Diggler in ''Boogie Nights'' may have been a fool, but he was a fool with an oversize dream -- a fleshpot star.) As he gets busted and betrayed, Jung is transformed from a svelte con artist to a pudgy has-been, but the movie says that all he ever really cared about was the daughter he couldn't be there for. Is that all there is to it? At the end of ''Blow,'' we get a close-up photograph of the real George Jung, a look of perilous knowledge behind his twinkly black eyes. You may leave feeling as if you still want to see a movie about that man.   For rating reasons : filmrating.com, mpaa.com                                    For Parents : Parentalguide.com
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