Blow
The story of George Jung, along with the Medellín Cartel, headed by Pablo Escobar established the American cocaine market in the 1970s in the United States.
18 December 1954, Newark, New Jersey, USA
6 September 1974, Durban, South Africa
26 May 1959, Wisconsin, USA
26 May 1962, Syracuse, New York, USA
23 April 1979, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
4 October 1969, Los Angeles, California, USA
2 September 1954, Tuba City, Arizona, USA
28 March 1968, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
16 November 1951, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
6 January 1959, Englewood, New Jersey, USA
28 December 1969, Davis, California, USA
September 16, 2007
Comes off like a flamboyant cartoon, another film about the deglamorization of glamorous people living it up in the glamorous world of drugs.July 23, 2007
Blow isn't really a classic, but it's a sobering story well-told.May 26, 2006
Johnny Depp stars and, despite some pretty awful makeup, nails his performance as George Jung.July 16, 2009
Johnny Depp gives a spellbindingly naturalistic performance that puts a sympathetic face on a powerfully individualistic man unable to shake a world of crime that brought him immense riches and eventually cost him everything he caredabout.April 06, 2001
A mediocre biopic.January 02, 2011
Uneven drug trade story has explicit drug use.April 06, 2001
Grabs hold of you by the lapels and simply won't let go.April 06, 2001
An extraordinary -- and unfathomable -- piece of whitewashing.October 05, 2008
Does the movie make us care? Not really, which is the movie's basic problem.April 06, 2001
Blow fades a bit in its second half, weighed down by a need to closely follow Jung's life. But even then, the actors are so compelling that it's just a mild discomfort.April 06, 2001
Depp aside, the acting is almost uniformly atrocious -- although it's hard to make hay out of this dialogue.April 06, 2001
Blow can't sustain the high.