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Based on the true story of how powder cocaine turned into America's biggest drug problem and how one man from the blue-collar suburbs became the 35 billion-dollar-a-year conduit to the Colombian cartels. George Jung pursued what he thought was the American Dream. Rather than become just another construction worker like his father, George moves to California where he discovers the profitable pleasures of selling marijuana. A spell in prison introduces him to big-time Colombian dealers, and soon George is involved with their plan to export tons of cocaine to American shores. He becomes fabulously wealthy, but takes a dizzying fall that knocks him out of the underworld.
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| Production Status: |
Released |
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| Logline: |
With the help of a Medellin cartel, a small-town American builds a multi-million dollar drug smuggling operation. About the drug dealer that introduced cocaine to Hollywood. |
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| Genres: |
Drama, Crime/Gangster and Adaptation |
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| Running Time: |
2 hrs. 4 min. |
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| Release Date: |
April 6, 2001 Nationwide |
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| MPAA Rating: |
R for pervasive drug content and language, some violence and sexuality. |
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| Distributors: |
New Line Cinema
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| Production Co.: |
Apostle Pictures, AD Pictures
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| Studios: |
New Line Cinema
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| U.S. Box Office: |
$53,052,472 |
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| Filming Locations: |
Los Angeles, California, USA
Mexico
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| Produced in: |
United States |
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