BLOW
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Title: Blow
Year: 2001 Johnny Depp plays: George Jung Directed by: Ted Demme Written by: Bruce Porter (book); David McKenna and Nick Cassavetes (screenplay) Genre: Biography/Crime/Drama MPAA Rating: R Runtime: 124 minutes |
PLOT
Based on the true story of how powder cocaine turned
into America's biggest drug problem and how one man from the blue-collar suburbs
became the 35 billion-dollar-a-year conduit to the Colombian cartels. George
Jung pursued what he thought was the American Dream. Rather than become just
another construction worker like his father, George moves to California where he
discovers the profitable pleasures of selling marijuana. A spell in prison
introduces him to big-time Colombian dealers, and soon George is involved with
their plan to export tons of cocaine to American shores. He becomes fabulously
wealthy, but takes a dizzying fall that knocks him out of the underworld.
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QUOTES
George: It was the greatest feeling I ever had. Followed abruptly by the worst feeling I ever had.
[last lines]
George: So in the end, was it worth it? Jesus Christ. How irreparably changed my
life has become. It's always the last day of summer and I've been left out in
the cold with no door to get back in. I'll grant you I've had more than my share
of poignant moments. Life passes most people by while they're making grand plans
for it. Throughout my lifetime, I've left pieces of my heart here and there. And
now, there's almost not enough to stay alive. But I force a smile, knowing that
my ambition far exceeded my talent. There are no more white horses or pretty
ladies at my door.
George: Life passes most people by while they're making grand plans for it.
Fred Jung: Sometimes you're flush and sometimes you're bust, and when you're up, it's never as good as it seems, and when you're down, you never think you'll be up again, but life goes on.
Ermine Jung: You think people don't know you're a drug dealer. Everyone knows, its no secret. Every time I go out I'm humiliated. So you go to jail. It's for your own good. You need to straighten your life out. What are you looking at Mrs. Gracie, your son's no prize.
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