Traffic (2000)
The film follows three different stories of how drugs affect people: one in Mexico, one in San Diego, and one in Cincinnati.
Directed by Stephen Soderbergh
Written Stephen Gaghan
Music by Cliff Martinez
Starring, in alphabetical order: Steven Bauer, James Brolin, Benjamin Bratt, Don Chealde, Erika Christensen, Clifton Collins Jr., Viola Davis, Benicio del Toro, Michael Douglas, Miguel Ferrer, Albert Finney, Topher Grace, Luis Guzman, Amy Irving, Tomas Milian, D.W. Moffett, James Pickens Jr., Dennis Quaid, Peter Riegert, John Slattery, Jacob Vargas, and CATHERINE ZETA-JONES
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | May 12, 2023 6:16 PM
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One of my favorite films. A great depiction from all angles of the year 2000.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | May 12, 2023 3:42 AM
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Today the drug trafficking in this movie seems quaint.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | May 12, 2023 3:46 AM
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Benicio was sweaty and greasy throughout the movie but I thought he never looked hotter. I liked the condom in the cigarette box trick.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | May 12, 2023 3:50 AM
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R3 Yes. It is between del Toro and Javier Bardem for me. Both HOT AF
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | May 12, 2023 3:54 AM
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Steve Bauer is good looking too
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | May 12, 2023 1:37 PM
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Not every director can keep multiple threads going and balance the stories. Soderbergh did well here and in [italic]Contagion[/italic]. I was watching an old [italic]Person of Interest[/italic] episode (S1, E7, Witness) yesterday and noticed Jonathan Nolan pulled it off.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | May 12, 2023 5:17 PM
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It was on my mind because I'm reading a sprawling Neal Stephenson book told from various perspectives. He's a little clunkier with this, but I stick with it because he's good at speculative fiction.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | May 12, 2023 5:20 PM
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R4, you can't leave out Edgar Ramirez.
I watched this last night. Stay up past my bedtime. I always enjoyed this movie. I forgot how many cameos were in the movie. Not just seeing the senators like Arlen Spector and Barbara Boxer or Harry Reid, etc. But Tom Finney, Benjamin Bratt, and James Brolin. And Dennis Quaid as slimey Arnie. Clifton Collins as Frankie Flowers so good. Katherine Zeta Jones was actually pregnant in the movie. I loved Don Cheadle in this and Miguel Ferrer was brilliant. Erika Christensen and Topher Grace. And of course Michael Douglas and Amy Irving.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | May 12, 2023 6:09 PM
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Benicio was really really good in this.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | May 12, 2023 6:10 PM
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I think Bauer got type cast from this movie. He was in Scarface, with Al Pacino as a drug dealer, played a shady community leader in Primal Fear with Richard Gear But he is very hot. I noticed him years ago when he was in a made for TV movie about the Munich Olympics. It was called Sword of Gideon. Spielberg used it as the basis of his movie Munich with Eric Bana as the lead.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | May 12, 2023 6:16 PM
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