Blow (Blu-ray) R
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 3 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: September 23, 2008
- Originally Released: 2001
- Label: New Line Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Johnny Depp & Penélope Cruz | |
Performer: | Jordi Mollà, Franka Potente, Rachel Griffiths, Ray Liotta, Ethan Suplee, Max Perlich & Jamie King | |
Directed by | Ted Demme | |
Edited by | Kevin Tent | |
Screenwriting by | Nick Cassavetes & David McKenna | |
Produced by | Joel Stillerman, Denis Leary & Ted Demme | |
Director of Photography: | Ellen Kuras |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2/4 --
Rambling and confused, the film shows much concern for plot and not enough for characterization, particularly in second half which unfolds as a catalog of events. Misdirected, the usually reliable Depp gives a confused and scattered performance.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
The filmmakers are torn between presenting George's life story as a cautionary tale, or as a blast.
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New York Magazine/Vulture
Johnny Depp stars and, despite some pretty awful makeup, nails his performance as George Jung.
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Combustible Celluloid
...Clickety-clack pacing and inventive supporting casting....Consistently compelling...
USA Today
...Vigorous direction and attention to detail....Uniformly excellent performances....Depp provides a remarkably supple performance in the lead role...
Hollywood Reporter
Rating: A --
This is one of the few drug movies where you actually feel a little sorry for the drug-dealing coke-infested lead character.
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Reel Talk Online
...[Demme] capitalizes on his strongest assets: a knack for comedy and an ambitious taste for scale...
Sight and Sound
Product Description:
George Jung (Johnny Depp) doesn't want to live like his father (Ray Liotta)--always short of money and constantly berated by his mother (Rachel Griffiths). So he sets off for California to live on the beach, where he finds he can make a living selling drugs. Soon George's drug dealing business expands into shipping drugs across the country. Needing a bigger supply of drugs, he travels to Columbia and meets Pablo Escobar (Cliff Curtis). Before long, George becomes the biggest trafficker of cocaine in the United States. In BLOW, director Ted Demme and scriptwriters Nick Cassevetes and David McKenna chart George's strange course into a world of girls and sun, drugs and fun. It's all so easy until events change George's life forever.
Depp gives one of his best performances as George, instilling the character with a complicated mixture of emotions. For the supporting roles, Demme's eccentric casting includes German actress Franka Potente as George's girlfriend; Spanish actress Penélope Cruz as his wife; Australian actress Rachel Griffiths (who in real life is five years younger than Depp) as his withering mother; and Paul Reubens (in an excellent performance) as a hairdresser-cum-drug dealer.
Depp gives one of his best performances as George, instilling the character with a complicated mixture of emotions. For the supporting roles, Demme's eccentric casting includes German actress Franka Potente as George's girlfriend; Spanish actress Penélope Cruz as his wife; Australian actress Rachel Griffiths (who in real life is five years younger than Depp) as his withering mother; and Paul Reubens (in an excellent performance) as a hairdresser-cum-drug dealer.
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- Sales Rank: 24,504
- UPC: 794043123443
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