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List Price: $19.96 | | Label: New Line Home Video
Salesrank: 802
Released: September 11, 2001 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Based on a true story, Blow gives us a fast-paced look at the quick rise and fall of George Jung (Johnny Depp) who became a premier importer of Colombian cocaine, in the turbulent 1970's, forever changing the face of drugs in America.
DVD Features:
Audio Commentary
DVD ROM Features
DVD ROM exclusive web site
Documentary
Filmographies
Music Video
Outtakes
Production Notes
Theatrical Trailer
Description of Blow (Infinifilm Edition):
A briskly paced hybrid of Boogie Nights and Goodfellas, Blow chronicles the three-decade rise and fall of George Jung (Johnny Depp), a normal American kid who makes a personal vow against poverty, builds a marijuana empire in the '60s, multiplies his fortune with the Colombian Medellín cocaine cartel, and blows it all with a series of police busts culminating in one final, long-term jail sentence. "Your dad's a loser," says this absentee father to his estranged but beloved daughter, and he's right: Blow is the story of a nice guy who made wrong choices all his life, almost single-handedly created the American cocaine trade, and got exactly what he deserved. As directed by Ted Demme, the film is vibrantly entertaining, painstakingly authentic... and utterly aimless in terms of overall purpose.
We can't sympathize with Jung's meteoric rise to wealth and the wild life, and Demme isn't suggesting that we should idolize a drug dealer. So what, exactly, is the point of Blow? Simply, it seems, to present Jung's story as the epitome of the coke-driven glory days, and to suggest, ever so subtly, that Jung isn't such a bad guy, after all. Anyone curious about his lifestyle will find this film amazing, and there's plenty of humor mixed with the constant threat of violence and paranoid anxiety. Demme has also populated the film with a fantastic supporting cast (although Penélope Cruz grows tiresome as Jung's hedonistic wife), and this is certainly a compelling look at the other side of Traffic. Still, one wishes that Blow had a more viable reason for being; like a wild party, it leaves you with a hangover and a vague feeling of regret. --Jeff Shannon
Blow (Infinifilm Edition) Reviews:
Crime does not pay. No honor among thieves. A very good life lesson based on a true story 
2008-11-15 - The story is interesting and engaging from the beginning till the end.
It's a very good life lesson based on a true story. It showed a "big" drug dealer can make tons of money. However it also shows crime does not pay and there is no honor among thieves. They set up each other. They stole from each other, etc.
It's absolutely worth viewing.
Oh Black Betty... 
2008-11-10 - This movie is simply awsome!!! If you are a fan of Entourage and you have seen the Medelin episodes, then you have something great to compare this too. Blow is to Medelin episodes as BLOW is to sleep...
Buy this movie and stay up ALL NIGHT watching it...You will want to snort Johnny Depp up your nose.
"One of the best"
2008-11-07 - -BLOW-
When I first watched blow I was blown away by the story line it's just incredible. The man of gorge Jung who persuade happiness or though he thought. It shows how it is easy to get rich selling drugs. But the
consequences are permanent. I would encourage little kids to watch this and decide for them self "do want two lives like this?" It's true that money is not everything George Jung thought he had a perfect wife and the perfect life. But with selling there's always twist and turns, it would
of bin a lot worse for George Jung. George Jung did crash on burn but he did not stop there. He tried to make things better but at the end he was set up and went to jail for the last time, for a long time. It's not easy
to get away from cops; they will always nail you for the big stuff. This is why I encourage for kids to watch this and see what kind of destruction the life of drug dealing can cause. The movie did paid respect to the chronology of George Jung's career. George's chronology is base on his life. The movie shows a lot of respect to George and
everything he did. It show respect to Jung's fans, the movies he been on and the people he was with. Jung has respect for Blow and his cast members and the director. Once I saw Blow, when George was an undercover cop. He really got in his character and he does show a lot of respect for
the movie. George's career might have some defining moments and significant events for his life and the movie.
Arrogance and betrayal
2008-10-15 - This film takes a great pleasure in depicting a mediocre criminal, a drug dealer actually, who considers himself a hero, a genius and maybe even a god on earth. His initial success he analyzes as his own and does not see it is the success of a system and when he fails it's because he crossed a line somewhere: too much and too sure of himself maybe even arrogant and condescending. Then his story is a story of successive failures in between short periods of success and long periods of prison as a result of it all. He ends up betrayed by his own partners who deliver him to the FBI and DEA one night in order to get themselves out of the business clean and unharmed. Finks, that's what his friends were. But he deserved it. Then the story seems to support him on the other side of the coin: his daughter. He loses his wife and his daughter in order to go and by going to prison a first time. Then he re-conquers his daughter little by little and he promises to take her away from the squalor her mother is providing. But that's when he decides to do one more trick to get the money he needs to kidnap his own daughter. That's when he is picked up, lower than him you cannot fall, by the police and sent to prison for so long that he will never see his father alive again. So he dreams his daughter comes and visits him. But that's a dream, an illusion, a mirage. He was not able to deliver his promise and he has been discarded like an old shoe or a worn out sock. Sad but after all very moralistic. Crime does not pay and only brings deception, disappointment and suffering. Too moral maybe to be as good as it could have been. How can we support or sympathize with this selfish and arrogant p**** of a man?
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne & University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines
One of my favorites
2008-10-04 - The movie is one of my favorites but in the bonus features I would have liked to hear more of George Jung's thoughts and stories.
