Blow (2001)
- Eagle-eyed viewers have noticed a hidden easter egg referencing Ted Demme's previous film in the background of the opening scene.
- Before Johnny Depp was cast, several major A-list stars turned down the lead role because they felt the script was too risky.
- The original script for Blow was written over a decade before production finally began in 2001.
Blow is a 2001 American biographical crime drama directed by Ted Demme, based on the true story of George Jung. Johnny Depp stars as Jung, a working-class Massachusetts kid who moves to California in the late 1960s and builds a small marijuana distribution business before connecting with the Medellin Cartel's Carlos Lehder, played by Jordi Molla, and Pablo Escobar, played by Cliff Curtis, to become the primary importer of cocaine into the United States during the late 1970s and 1980s, responsible by his own account for 85 percent of all cocaine entering America. Johnny Depp brought vulnerability and genuine tragedy to Jung, a man whose pursuit of wealth destroyed every relationship — his marriages, his friendship with his partner, and most devastatingly his relationship with his daughter Kristina, whose absence from his life provides the film's emotional core.
The final prison scene, in which Jung imagines his adult daughter visiting him and tells her everything he wishes he could say, was one of Depp's most emotionally powerful moments. Ray Liotta and Rachel Griffiths appeared as Jung's parents. Blow earned $83 million worldwide on a $53 million budget.
