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Johnny Depp Penélope Cruz Franka Potente Rachel Griffiths Paul Reubens Jordi Mollà Cliff Curtis Miguel Sandoval Ethan Suplee Ray Liotta Kevin Gage Max Perlich Jesse James Miguel Pérez Dan Ferro |
George Jung Mirtha Jung Barbara Buckley Ermine Jung Derek Foreal Diego Delgado Pablo Escobar Augusto Oliveras Tuna Fred Jung Leon Minghella Kevin Dulli Young George Alessandro Cesar Toban |
| Directors: | Ted Demme | |
| Certification: |
South Korea:18 Argentina:16 Australia:MA Chile:14 Finland:K-15
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| IMDB Rating: | 7.30 out of 10 (40288 votes) | |
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| Taglines: |
1: Based on a True Story. |
| Plot Summary | 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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