Traffic (#151) USED
TRAFFIC examines the question of drugs as politics, business, and lifestyle. With an innovative, color-coded cinematic treatment distinguishing his interwoven stories, Steven Soderbergh (OCEANS ELEVEN, CHE) embroils viewers in the lives of a newly appointed drug czar and his family, a West Coast kingpins wife, a key informant, and police officers on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. The film, delivering a complex and nuanced take on this issue of such great international importance without sacrificing any energy or suspense, is a contemporary classic, and the winner of four Oscars, for best director, best screenplay, best editing, and best supporting actor for Benicio del Toro (FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS).
TRAFFIC examines the question of drugs as politics, business, and lifestyle. With an innovative, color-coded cinematic treatment distinguishing his interwoven stories, Steven Soderbergh (OCEANS ELEVEN, CHE) embroils viewers in the lives of a newly appointed drug czar and his family, a West Coast kingpins wife, a key informant, and police officers on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. The film, delivering a complex and nuanced take on this issue of such great international importance without sacrificing any energy or suspense, is a contemporary classic, and the winner of four Oscars, for best director, best screenplay, best editing, and best supporting actor for Benicio del Toro (FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS).
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TRAFFIC examines the question of drugs as politics, business, and lifestyle. With an innovative, color-coded cinematic treatment distinguishing his interwoven stories, Steven Soderbergh (OCEANS ELEVEN, CHE) embroils viewers in the lives of a newly appointed drug czar and his family, a West Coast kingpins wife, a key informant, and police officers on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. The film, delivering a complex and nuanced take on this issue of such great international importance without sacrificing any energy or suspense, is a contemporary classic, and the winner of four Oscars, for best director, best screenplay, best editing, and best supporting actor for Benicio del Toro (FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS).