Traffic R

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DVD Details

  • Rated: R
  • Closed captioning available
  • Run Time: 2 hours, 27 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: June 25, 2002
  • Originally Released: 2000
  • Label: Universal Studios

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Major Awards:

Academy Awards 2000 - Best Adapted Screenplay: Stephen Gaghan
Academy Awards 2000 - Best Director: Steven Soderbergh
Academy Awards 2000 - Best Supporting Actor: Benicio Del Toro

Entertainment Reviews:

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 190,311
Rating: 3/5 -- Tons of drug use, violence, and depressing stories. Full Review
Common Sense Media
Dec 29, 2010
Rating: 3.5/4 -- Director Steven Soderbergh is riding one of the hottest streaks in the movie world. Full Review
Globe and Mail
Apr 25, 2003
...Complex and ambitious....Yet another indication of how accomplished a filmmaker Steven Soderbergh has become...
Los Angeles Times
Dec 27, 2001
...The whole thing feels remarkably fresh, vibrant and new....The movie is adult, intelligent, sweeping yet intimate, nail-bitingly suspenseful, buoyed by an impeccable, uniformly powerhouse cast, and it provides a real perspective on a real issue...
Premiere
Feb 1, 2001
...Multi-layered plotting and plenty of pleasing technical flourishes....Douglas is superb... -- 4 out of 5 stars
Total Film
Feb 1, 2001
Rating: 8/10 -- A little masterpiece, at best, but for any other filmmaker, this would be a career highlight, while it's also easy to see how most other filmmakers would turn it into a dull, obvious harangue. Full Review
Antagony & Ecstasy
Jul 9, 2012
Rating: 3/4 -- In terms of modern films, it kicked off a whole list of issue-related multi-character dramas like Syriana, Crash, and Babel -- and it may be the best of all of them, even if some of its stories are stronger than others. Full Review
Scene-Stealers.com
Jan 31, 2012

Product Description:

Steven Soderbergh followed up his critical and commercial smash ERIN BROCKOVICH with this wildly exhilarating exploration of the complex, multilayered international drug problem. The film tells three seemingly disparate stories that loosely intersect and overlap, unfurling at a frantic, relentless pace. In the first, a well-intentioned Mexican police officer, Javier Rodriguez Rodriguez (Benicio Del Toro), comes face-to-face with the hypocrisy and hopelessness of his situation after he learns that his superior, General Salazar (Tomas Milian), isn't the law-abiding officer he claims to be. In the second, Robert Wakefield (Michael Douglas), a conservative Supreme Court judge from Ohio, takes a position as the president's new drug czar. What he doesn't realize is that his teenage daughter, Caroline (Erika Christensen), is falling prey to the dangerous narcotics that he has been hired to eradicate. In the third section, federal agents Montel Gordon (Don Cheadle) and Ray Castro (Luis Guzmán) are baby-sitting Eduardo Ruiz (Miguel Ferrer), a drug smuggler who is about to testify against the wealthy Carlos Ayala (Steven Bauer). When Ayala's pregnant wife, Helena (Catherine Zeta-Jones), learns of her husband's illegal activities, she takes her family's future into her own hands. Soderbergh's bold decision to photograph the film using three strikingly different visual schemes adds even greater punch to TRAFFIC, which stands firmly as one of 2000's most stirring motion picture events.

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  • UPC: 025192229923
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