Product: Blow [VHS] (2001)
Rating: 4.0
Strangers with Nose Candy
If you're looking for a moral from Blow, it's "dealing hard drugs never ends well." Not exactly the Dalai Lama at his finest.But if you're looking for an interesting story, movie and DVD, you might find this quite satisfying.The story is pretty simple. George Jung, deciding he didn't want to rerun the woes of his father, whom he loves, leaves home and winds up in the drug dealing business. He graduates from marijuana to cocaine and becomes a major league cocaine dealer, a move that dictates the course of his later life.Johnny Depp as George, Ray Liotta and Rachel Griffiths as his parents are excellent. Penelope Cruz's character is annoying, but what's worse is so is Penelope. By the end, she truly reminded me of a chihuahua.Demme gave the scenes in each period of this tale, which goes from the 1950s through the 1990s, the texture identified with that time period. For example, in the late 1960s California scenes, you feel like you're watching the outtakes from Pepsi ads from the era.The DVD extras, besides the commentaries, include interviews with the real George Jung; a documentary on the Colombian drug trade; and the infnifilm feature, which lets you click onto deleted scenes when the spots they would've been in come up in the movie, but click on "interviews" with the characters (pretty fun).I give it two and a half stars for the flick and a one-star bump for the DVD quality.