TRAFFIC (2000)

Directed by: Steven Soderbergh
Starring: Michael Douglas, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Don Cheadle, Benicio Del Toro, Erika Christensen, Topher Grace, Luis Guzman, Dennis Quaid, Jacob Vargas, Tomas Milian, James Brolin, Steven Bauer, Benjamin Bratt, Marisol Padilla, Amy Irving, D.W. Moffett, Albert Finney, Clifton Collins Jr, Miguel Ferrer, Peter Riegert, Viola Davis, John Slattery, James Pickens Jr, Salma Hayek

147 minutes
(R - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, violence, nudity, drug use, drug references)

PLOT:
Intertwining vignettes frame this tale of America's escalating War on Drugs. Ohio Supreme Court judge Robert Wakefield has been appointed the nation's Drug Czar, his new position made more daunting by the discovery that his teenage daughter Caroline is a cocaine addict. Meanwhile, DEA agents Montel Gordon and Ray Castro are pursuing Helena Ayala, wife of jailed kingpin Carlos Ayala, as she seeks to the control the business that her husband had kept hidden from her. South of the Border, duplicitous local constable Javier Rodriguez is fighting the battle with his own jaded, questionable ethical code.

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