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Motion Picture: "Traffic"Nominations: Best Picture Best Director Best Supporting Actor Best Adapted Screenplay Best Film Editing Produced by: Edward Zwick, Marshall Herskovitz, Laura Bickford Previous Best Film Wins: Broadcast Film Critics Golden Globes Golden Satellite Las Vegas Film Critics Los Angeles Film Critics National Board of Review National Society of Film Critics New York Film Critics Online Film Critics San Diego Film Critics Southeastern Film Critics Toronto Film Critics Synopsis: Traffic is a twisting story about the drug trade between the United States and Mexico. The scriptıs a broad story line and the movie includes a huge, star-studded cast. Its plot is filled with intrigue, corruption, addiction, power and more. The film rotates around three main story lines surrounded by numerous subplots. The director Steven Soderbergh first focuses on an honest, hard working Tijuana cop (Benico Del Toro) who makes a huge bust near the border. After the bust, the cop is enlisted by General Salazar to help bring down a large drug cartel in the country. Next the cameras turn to an Ohio Supreme Court Justice (Michael Douglas) who has been chosen by the President to become the U.S. drug czar. On the outside he seems like the perfect choice with a strong character and a perfect family, but after a look at his family we learn that he is oblivious to his own daughter's drug habit, which just gets worse. The final thread of the story line focuses on Helena (Catherine Zeta-Jones) who is a pregnant wife who assumes her husband is an honest businessman until she returns home to find that he has been taken into custody on drug charges. She finds out that he is one of the key figures in the drug trade between the U.S. and Mexico. The movie follows these main story lines, along with a number of new characters and plots along the way. The three plot lines twist together into a human look at the never-ending war on drugs.
Read the Florida Times-Union review of "Traffic"
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