| | | No one gets away clean.
Features: DVD, Dolby, Digital Audio, Dolby Digital (5.1) Surround Sound, Dolby Surround Sound, Spanish, French
It’s the high-stakes, high-risk world of the drug trade as seen through a well-blended mix of interrelated stories: a Mexican policeman (Benicio Del Toro) fins himself and his partner caught in a often deadly web of corruption; a pair of DEA agents (Don Cheadle and Luis Guzman) work undercover in a sordid and dangerous part of San Diego; a wealthy drug baron living in upscale, suburban America is arrested and learns how quickly his unknowing and pampered wife (Catherine Zeta-Jones) takes over his business; and the U.S. President’s new drug czar (Michael Douglas) must deal with his increasingly drug-addicted teenage daughter.
"A blistering, thought-provoking modern masterpiece." CNN
"Dazzling." Entertainment Weekly
"...breathtakingly stylish, wonderfuly acted." New York Post
Editor's Note
Steven Soderbergh followed up his critical and commercial smash ERIN BROCKOVICH with this wildly exhilarating exploration of the complex, multilayered international drug problem. The film tells three seemingly disparate stories that loosely intersect and overlap, unfurling at a frantic, relentless pace. In the first, a well-intentioned Mexican police officer, Javier Rodriguez Rodriguez (Benicio Del Toro), comes face-to-face with the hypocrisy and hopelessness of his situation after he learns that his superior, General Salazar (Tomas Milian), isn't the law-abiding officer he claims to be. In the second, Robert Wakefield (Michael Douglas), a conservative Supreme Court judge from Ohio, takes a position as the president's new drug czar. What he doesn't realize is that his teenage daughter, Caroline (Erika Christensen), is falling prey to the dangerous narcotics that he has been hired to eradicate. In the third section, federal agents Montel Gordon (Don Cheadle) and Ray Castro (Luis Guzmán) are baby-sitting Eduardo Ruiz (Miguel Ferrer), a drug smuggler who is about to testify against the wealthy Carlos Ayala (Steven Bauer). When Ayala's pregnant wife, Helena (Catherine Zeta-Jones), learns of her husband's illegal activities, she takes her family's future into her own hands. Soderbergh's bold decision to photograph the film using three strikingly different visual schemes adds even greater punch to TRAFFIC, which stands firmly as one of 2000's most stirring motion picture events.
| Features | Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound, Stereo | | Inside Traffic | | Interactive Menus | | Photo Gallery | | Scene Selection | | Subtitles: English, French, Spanish | | Theatrical Trailers |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: Universal |
| Release Date: 5/22/2007 |
| Running Time: 147 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2000 | | Catalog ID: 22299 | | UPC: 00025192229923 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: Spanish | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English, Spanish | | Available Subtitles: English, French, Spanish | | Video: Color |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Oscar (2001) |  | Benicio Del Toro, Winner, Best Supporting Actor | | Steven Soderbergh, Winner, Best Director | | Stephen Gaghan, Winner, Best Writing, Screenplay Based On Material Previously Produced Or Published | | Stephen Murrione, Winner, Best Editing | | | Laura Bickford, et al., Nominee, Best Picture | |
Golden Globe (2001) | | Benicio Del Toro, Winner, Best Supporting Actor | | Stephen Gaghan, Winner, Best Screenplay | | | Steven Soderbergh, Nominee, Best Director |
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| | Professional Reviews | New York Times
"Steven Soderbergh's great, despairing squall of a film [infuses] epic cinematic form with jittery new rhythms and a fresh, acid-washed palette....The performances, by an ensemble from which not a false note issues, have the clarity and force of pithy instrumental solos insistently piercing through a dense cacaphony..." 12/27/2000 pp.E1-E12USA Today
"...[A] consistently credible drama..." -- 3 out of 4 stars 12/27/2000 p.4D Entertainment Weekly
Ranked #3 in Entertainment Weekly's "Owen Gleiberman's BEST MOVIES OF 2000" 12/22/2000 pp.106-17 Total Film
"...Multi-layered plotting and plenty of pleasing technical flourishes....Douglas is superb..." -- 4 out of 5 stars 02/01/2001 p.88 Sight and Sound
"...Its vigorous, unjaded rush of imagery and story makes for an exciting visual experience..." 02/01/2001 p.53-4 Box Office
"...Soderbergh deftly weaves together four stories depicting the causes and effects of the illegal drug trade..." 02/01/2001 p.66 Premiere
"...The whole thing feels remarkably fresh, vibrant and new....The movie is adult, intelligent, sweeping yet intimate, nail-bitingly suspenseful, buoyed by an impeccable, uniformly powerhouse cast, and it provides a real perspective on a real issue..." 02/01/2001 p.18 Hollywood Reporter
"...A mosaic of heightened reality....A picture fascinating in its complexit....The technical contributions are adroit and stylish..." 12/12/2000 p.26 Los Angeles Times
"...Complex and ambitious....Yet another indication of how accomplished a filmmaker Steven Soderbergh has become..." 12/27/2001 p.F1 San Francisco Chronicle 9 of 10
...Soderbergh again proves himself one of our most inventive filmmakers... Traffic is explosi - Edward Guthmann
Chicago Sun-Times 9 of 10
Soderbergh's story...cuts between these charaters so smoothly that even a fairly complex scenario re - Roger Ebert
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