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Blow

2001

Ted Demme

Johnny Depp, Penélope Cruz, Ethan Suplee, Ray Liotta ...

6.8

33,576

Drama The story of George Jung, the man who established the American cocaine market in the 1970s. 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 ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Dennis Harvey Variety	"Respectable but unmemorable end result may suffer from comparison with the similarly themed"	NEU
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"'Blow', ambitious, messy and bursting with feelings for which it can’t always find coherent expression, is touched by greatness. It doesn’t just stick in the memory, it leaves scars."	POS
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"[Depp's] witty, spare performance gives the picture a poignancy (...) that Mr. Demme's hectic direction and the hurried script by David McKenna and Nick Cassavetes don't quite earn"	NEU
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"[It] is well-made and well-acted (...) The failure is George Jung's (...) He never became a person interesting enough to make a movie about (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"One coke-head mutters: 'I can't feel my face!' By the end of this, I couldn't feel my entire head."	NEG
United Kingdom	Michael Thomson BBC	"Depp, an actor of terrific intelligence, insight and range, easily transforms himself from peppy youngster to sad, shambling failure (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Stephen Hunter The Washington Post	"The movie offers [Jung] as tragic; his tragedy is that some people may actually believe this hokum."	NEG
United States	Marc Savlov Austin Chronicle	"There are few surprises (...) That Demme and Depp manage to make it as gripping as they do is certainly a mark of their faith in and commitment to the project (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEU

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