• Quotes (30)
• Trivia (16)
• Plot Description
• Soundtrack
• Wallpapers
• Shooting Locations
• Popularity
Release Date
• USA: Dec 27, 2000
• UK: 26 Jan 2001
DVD Release Date
• R1: Feb 1, 2001
• R2: 23 Jul 2001
Budget $48,000,000
Official Website:
Traffic Website
MPAA Rating
Rated R for pervasive drug content, strong language, violence and some sexuality.
Running Time
2 hours, 27 minutes
Country Germany, USA
Studio Bedford Falls Productions, Initial Entertainment Group
More info on IMDb.com
Other Titles
• Traffic
• Traffik (1999)
• Traffic - Die Macht des Kartells (2001)
|
Genre: Crime, Thriller, Drama, Political, Society, Drugs, Police, Teenage, Prostitution, Marriage, School / Campus, Gangsters, Murder, Courtroom, Kidnapping, Epic, Suspense
Tagline: No One Gets Away Clean
Plot: 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.
More Plot Descriptions
 |
Related Movies:
- remake of Traffik (1989)
- Traffic (2004) [remake]
|
 |
Behind the Scenes:
Read more about the production
| | Download Movie Script
For entertainment and informational purposes only. |
 Discussion forum for this movie
|
| |
![]()  Submit a trailer link
|
| Written by |
|
 | Simon Moore
The Quick and the Dead, Gulliver's Travels, Snow Queen |
|
| Cast |
|
 | Jacob Vargas
Get Shorty, Romy and Michele's High School Reunion, Flight of the Phoenix |
 | |
 | |
 | |
 | Luis Guzmán
Boogie Nights, Anger Management, Punch-Drunk Love |
 | |
 | |
[more] |
|
|
|
In Theaters
