Seductive, funny, whip-smart and ultimately tragic, this fact-based movie about George Jung, a genial pot dealer who wound up almost single-handedly blanketing the United States with Colombian snow, doesn't have the epic ambitions of TRAFFIC. It's a classic rise-and-fall story, electrified by Johnny Depp's best work since DONNIE BRASCO. Born into a working-class Massachusetts family, Jung grows up adoring his industrious father Fred (Ray Liotta), whose materialistic shrew of a wife, Ermine (Rachel Griffiths), never fails to point out his inadequacies as a provider. After dad is forced to declare bankruptcy, little George discovers his inner Scarlett O'Hara, vowing th...
Released:
2001
Rated:
R
Length:
119 mins