MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ted Demme
Starring: Johnny Depp, Penelope Cruz, Cliff Curtis, Jordi Molla, Paul Reubens, Ray Liotta
"Blow" Video
"In all his life, he had never had a checking account, never had a Social Security card, never paid income taxes. He calculates he made around $100 million through his association with the Medellin cartel, but, penniless, he returned to the Cape after prison to a job delivering fish to seafood restaurants for Bird, his former bodyguard. Shortly, he reeentered the drug business with his Yacqui Indian friend Ramon, and in 1994 was caught importing several hundred pounds of marijuana from Mexico and sentenced to twenty-two years in prison. Now fifty-eight years old, he works as head gardener at the Federal Correctional Institution in Otisville, New York, where he brightens the prison walkways with marigolds and chrysanthemums. Occasionally, overhead he can see the crows wheeling about and hear their cries, but otherwise the woods surrounding the place is empty and quiet. So life is for George, the motor sailer, all the dreams having receded so far into the distance as to no longer be in view."
- Bruce Porter, Blow: How a Small-Town Boy Made $100 Million with the Medellin Cocaine Cartel and Lost it All, 1993