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Traffic (2000)

Traffic (2000)

Drama Crime Thriller

No one gets away clean

Release Date: 2000, December 27
Directors: Steven Soderbergh
Countries: United States of America
Production: USA Films, Initial Entertainment Group, Bedford Falls Productions, Laura Bickford Productions, Compulsion Inc.
Cast: Luis Guzmán, Dennis Quaid, Michael O'Neill, Topher Grace, William-Christopher Stephens, Rod Fielder, Don Cheadle, Benicio del Toro, D.W. Moffett, Elaine Kagan, Viola Davis, John Slattery

Overview:

An exploration of the United States of America's war on drugs from multiple perspectives. For the new head of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the war becomes personal when he discovers his well-educated daughter is abusing cocaine within their comfortable suburban home. In Mexico, a flawed, but noble policeman agrees to testify against a powerful general in league with a cartel, and in San Diego, a drug kingpin's sheltered trophy wife must learn her husband's ruthless business after he is arrested, endangering her luxurious lifestyle.

Keywords:

addiction usa–mexico border drug dealer smuggling (contraband) drug trafficking daughter drug lord mother drug abuse drug smuggling war on drugs addicted police operation father marriage dispute