Blow (DVD)

>>>The Film<<< George Jung (Johnny Depp) vows never to struggle in life as his father, Fred (Ray Liotta) has done. So as soon as he is able, he and his best friend Tuna (Ethan Suplee) move to California where they get involved in some low level supplying of weed to the locals. It is here in California where he meets Barbara (Franka Potente), the love of his life and between them and a few other people including Derek Foreal (Paul Reubens) they start to move small amounts of weed back to their home town, this is aided by the fact that Barbara is an air stewardess. Tragedy strikes and after a spell in jail he meets Diego Delgado (Jordi ...  Read the complete review

Blow - 1-Disk DVD Rated 18 Feature Running Time: 119 mins Director: Ted Demme === Disk 1: Main Movie === Blow is based on a true story about drug-dealer George Jung (Johnny Depp) as he starts small after moving to California by selling marijuana on the beaches to his eventual drug selling domination of the west coast cocaine business. Set between the 60s, 70s and 80's, Blow follows the ups and downs of Jung as he escapes the middle class lifestyle after learning he doesn't want to have the same life as his parents (Played by Ray Liotta and Rachel Griffiths), he leaves for California with his his best friend Tuna ...  Read the complete review

Blow is based on the book: " Blow: How a Small -Town Boy Made $100 Million with the Medellin Cocaine Cartel and Lost it All, by Bruce Porter. The film tells the story of George Jung (Johnny Depp), an average small-town American boy who decided to pursue the American Dream by becoming the first American to import cocaine into the United States on a large scale. In just a few short years during the 1970's, powder cocaine turned from being a relatively obscure illegal drug into a multi-billion dollar international business with the power to make and break nations. Most people know that behind the surge in cocaine's popularity were powerful Colombian drug ...  Read the complete review

Carl Jung's life sounds so interesting and intriguing that a film had to be made of it. But to be honest, this film doesn't do his story any justice. It appears frank and rushed and yet the film itself is about 3 hours long, around about an hour too long for me to sit through. Although Depp portrays jung in such a fantastic manner, allowing you to fully identify with him, and penelope cruz also adds weight to the film, you can't help but wonder why the film is so long. I read an interview with the man himself, carl jung, in a magasine, and to be honest, reading that story was much more interesting than this film. Depp did his research on the man himself by ...  Read the complete review

Well the time is 11:04 pm right now and i have just returned home from my first view into the life of george jung. George Jung was a well known name in his time for his dealing in hard drugs. Im not talking little amounts im talking enough cocaine was brought in by him to produce a snow blizzard made out of cocaine. The first part shows his family, what he did as a child and where he lived. After introducing you to numerous fights between his mother and father the movie continues to california where Mr Jung becomes involved in the drug world. At first its marijuana where he realizes that money is easy made by selling marijuana to people near or ...  Read the complete review