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Blow
Character: Mirtha Jung
Year: 2001
Director: Ted Demme
Screenwriter: Bruce Porter, David McKenna
Genre: Biography / Crime / Drama
MPAA Rating: R for pervasive drug content and language, some violence and sexuality
Other Cast: Johnny Depp, Franka Potente, Rachel Griffiths
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George Jung is the son of a struggling small business owner. Seeing his family struggle to make ends meet and failing, George vows never to share a similar fate. Moving to California, he starts his own pot pushing operation in which he finds both success and imprisonment.
In prison, he meets a cellmate who introduces him into a partnership to the lucrative new market in cocaine. Upon release, George Jung quickly becomes instrumental in establishing the exploding US market for cocaine in which he claimed that he handled about 85% of the supply in the 1970's.
However, for all the fabulous wealth and power he gained, the true costs of his dangerously treacherous occupation catch up with him in ways from which he would never recover.
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The actors snorted milk powder in the cocaine scenes.
A lot of Johnny Depp's dialogue was improvised, including the scene where they are trying to find a place to put all their money from selling coke and his line "We're gonna need a bigger boat" (a quote from Jaws (1975)).
To prepare for the role Johnny Depp interviewed the real George Jung in prison.
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Penélope Cruz on Johnny Depp "I am very sensitive to everything. I cannot even drink coffee! In the film, we had to do all these lines of lactose. But I think that is the shoot where I laughed the most, because Johnny is one of the funniest people in the world."
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