My BLOW Trailer [HD]
Blow is a 2001 drama/biopic film about the American cocaine smuggler George Jung, directed by Ted Demme. David McKenna and Nick Cassavetes adapted Bruce Porter’s 1993 book Blow: How a Small Town Boy Made 0 Million with the Medellin Cocaine Cartel and Lost It All for the screenplay. It is based on the real life stories of George Jung, Pablo Escobar, Carlos Lehder, and the Medellín Cartel. The film’s title comes from a slang term for cocaine. The film opens to a young George and his parents Fred (Ray Liotta) and Ermine (Rachel Griffiths). Fred files for bankruptcy and lose everything. A grown-up George (Johnny Depp) moves to Southern California with his friend “Tuna” (Ethan Suplee) and they plan to earn a living by selling marijuana with the help of Barbara Buckley (Franka Potente) who introduces them to her friend/entrepreneur Derek Foreal (Paul Reubens), the main dealer. With Derek’s help, George and Tuna make a lot of money. Kevin Dulli (Max Perlich) a college student back in Boston who is a friend, visits them and tells them of the enormous demand for pot in Boston. With the help of Barbara, an airline stewardess, they start bringing the drugs to Boston. As the demand grows, they decide to start buying the drugs directly from Mexico with the help of a few Mexican drug lords. George then proceeds on to Chicago to do business, but is caught trying to import 660 pounds of marijuana and he is sentenced to two years. George skips bail to care for his dying girlfriend …
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