Storyline
An exploration of the United States of America's war on drugs from multiple perspectives. For the new head of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the war becomes personal when he discovers his well-educated daughter is abusing cocaine within their comfortable suburban home. In Mexico, a flawed, but noble policeman agrees to testify against a powerful general in league with a cartel, and in San Diego, a drug kingpin's sheltered trophy wife must learn her husband's ruthless business after he is arrested, endangering her luxurious lifestyle.
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Cast
Salma Hayek, Emilio Rivera, Dennis Quaid, Benicio del Toro, Don Cheadle, Michael O'Neill, Michael O'Neill, Clifton Collins Jr., Topher Grace, Jeremy Fitzgerald, Viola Davis, Albert Finney, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Luis Guzmán, Stacey Travis, Jacob Vargas, Michael Douglas, Mary Pat Gleason, Beau Holden, Benjamin Bratt, Miguel Ferrer, Erika Christensen, Tomás Milián, Tomás Milián, Russell G. Jones, Amy Irving, Joel Torres, Michael Saucedo, Jose Yenque, Jessica Yoshimura, Marisol Padilla Sánchez
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Reviews
100
Enormously ambitious and masterfully made, Traffic represents docudrama-style storytelling at a very high level.
100
Dallas Observer
It is a remarkable achievement in filmmaking, a beautiful and brutal work.
90
L.A. Weekly
His (Soderbergh's) work has taken on echoes of a classier, bygone age of cinema, at once more literate and lighthearted.
90
Village Voice
Traffic is not just an ultra-procedural--it's the Big Picture, the Whole Enchilada, complete with a complicated war between two Mexican drug cartels.
88
Baltimore Sun
It's every bit as thrilling and engrossing as the best spy thriller or cop flick.
