blow

Rating: 9/10 (8 April 2009)

I liked this movie a lot. Blow was a true story about a man named George Yung (Johnny Depp) who starts a small drug dealer dealing marijuana. as a young man, George always had big dreams. after getting busted selling 600 pounds of marijuana at a playboy club in Chicago he is put into prison. there he meets a man who introduces the idea of selling cocaine. His name is Diego. Diego is from Columbia, also a friend of the infamous Pablo Escobar. Right when George gets out of prison he finds a way to go down to Columbia to one of Pablo's mansions even tho he is on parole and cannot leave the country. Using his connects from the marijuana trade he is given 10 Kilograms of cocaine and gets rid of it all in 4 hours. In seeing this Pablo immediately gets him on the fast track selling cocaine for him in the US. This is the legendary cocaine boom of the 70's. Durring this time, George Young is trafficking over 80% of the drug going into the US. He later meets a girl (penelopi cruise) and has a child with her. after getting in trouble with the law a few times, George stops selling drugs and goes clean. he does not see his daughter for a long time, so one day he decides to walk her to school, here he promises that he will take her on vacation to California. TO do this he has to make one small drug deal. this is where the DEA sets him up and puts him in prison for a very very long time. His daughter waited and waited for him that next morning for him to pick her up. She still hasn't forgave him.
very good story. good acting. awesome soundtrack.