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Blow. Jump to. 3 wins & 9 nominations. Costume Designers Guild Awards. 2002 Nominee CDG Award. Excellence in Period/Fantasy Film. Mark Bridges. Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. 2001 Nominee Crystal Globe. Ted Demme. MTV Movie + TV Awards. 2002 Nominee MTV Movie Award. Breakthrough Female Performance. Penélope Cruz. Prism Awards.
Apr 6, 2001 · Blow: Directed by Ted Demme. With Johnny Depp, Penélope Cruz, Franka Potente, Rachel Griffiths. The story of how George Jung, along with the Medellín Cartel headed by Pablo Escobar, established the American cocaine market in the 1970s in the United States.
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- Biography, Crime, Drama
- Ted Demme
- 2001-04-06
Apr 6, 2001 · Nick Cassavetes. David McKenna. "Blow" stars Johnny Depp in a biopic about George Jung, a man who claims that in the late 1970s he imported about 85 percent of all the cocaine in America. That made him the greatest success story in drugs, an industry that has inspired more movies than any other.
He is a big hit in California in the 1960's, yet he goes to jail, where he finds out about the wonders of cocaine. As a result, when released, he gets rich by bringing cocaine to America. However, he soon pays the price. A boy named George Jung grows up in a struggling family in the 1950's. His mother nags at her husband as he is trying to make ...
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Apr 6, 2001 · Prism Awards. • 1 Win & 1 Nomination. A high-velocity look at George Jung's (Depp) spectacular rise and fall -- based on the true story of how powder cocaine turned into America's biggest drug problem and how one man from the blue-collar suburbs became the 35 billion-dollar a-year conduit to the Colombian cartels.
Mar 16, 2001 · Blow. Johnny Depp plays George Jung, a key player in the 1970s cocaine-trafficking boom, in the fact-based drama "Blow," the most ambitious project to date from director-producer Ted Demme ("The ...
