Blow (2001) movie poster

Blow (2001)

"based on a true story"
ThumbScore
👍 84%Google users liked it ⓘ
Critics Score
🎬 54%
CrimeDrama

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Director
Runtime
2h 4m
Rated
R
Country
United States of America
Language
English
TMDB Rating
7.4/10 (4,544 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes
56%
Metacritic
52

Cast

Johnny Depp as George Jung · 75% avg
Penélope Cruz as Mirtha Jung · 70% avg
Franka Potente as Barbara Buckley · 75% avg
Rachel Griffiths as Ermine Jung · 74% avg
Ray Liotta as Fred Jung · 68% avg
Jordi Mollà as Diego Delgado · 70% avg
Cliff Curtis as Pablo Escobar · 72% avg
Paul Reubens as Derek Foreal · 74% avg

Is Blow good?

Most people think so. 84% of audiences gave it a thumbs up, by Google's archived audience score. Critics scored it lower at 54%, but audiences disagreed.

Where it ranks on ThumbScore

Rank in its genre
#269 / 1253 · Crime
Rank in its year
#43 / 146 · 2001

By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.

Overview

A boy named George Jung grows up in a struggling family in the 1950's. His mother nags at her husband as he is trying to make a living for the family. It is finally revealed that George's father cannot make a living and the family goes bankrupt. George does not want the same thing to happen to him, and his friend Tuna, in the 1960's, suggests that he deal marijuana. He is a big hit in California in the 1960's, yet he goes to jail, where he finds out about the wonders of cocaine. As a result, when released, he gets rich by bringing cocaine to America. However, he soon pays the price. Wikipedia ↗

About the Film

Blow is a 2001 American biographical crime drama directed by Ted Demme, based on the true story of George Jung. 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.

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