Blow (film)

Blow
Theatrical release poster
Directed byTed Demme
Written by
Based onBlow
by Bruce Porter
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyEllen Kuras
Edited byKevin Tent
Music byGraeme Revell
Production
companies
  • Spanky Pictures
  • Aposte
Distributed byNew Line Cinema
Release date
  • April 6, 2001 (2001-04-06)
Running time
124 minutes[1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$53 million[1]
Box office$83.3 million[1]

Blow is a 2001 American biographical crime drama film directed by Ted Demme, about an American cocaine kingpin and his international network. David McKenna and Nick Cassavetes adapted Bruce Porter's 1993 book Blow: How a Small Town Boy Made $100 Million with the Medellín Cocaine Cartel and Lost It All[2] for the screenplay. It is based on the real-life stories of U.S. drug trafficker George Jung (played by Johnny Depp) and his connections including narcotics kings Pablo Escobar and Carlos Lehder Rivas (portrayed in the film as Diego Delgado), and the Medellín Cartel.

  1. ^ a b c "Blow". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved November 22, 2010.
  2. ^ Porter, Bruce (2014). Blow. How a Small-Town Boy Made $100 Million With the Medellin Cocaine Cartel and Lost It All. New York City: St. Martin's Griffin. p. 320. ISBN 978-1-466-87624-8. 1st ed.: 1993. New York City: HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-060-17930-4. ISBN 0-06017930-9.