8 Jan 2003
Director: Steven Soderbergh
USA
2000
147 mins
Intertwining vignettes frame this tale of America’s escalating War on Drugs. Robert Wakefield has been appointed the nation’s new drug tsar only to discover his daughter Caroline is now an addict. Meanwhile drug enforcement officers protect a witness against a jailed drug kingpin. In Mexico, Javier, a police officer, fights his own battle with his questionable code of ethics. Each of the stories weaves through the film taking an uncompromising look at different aspects of America’s battle with drugs. Soderburgh steers a compelling narrative through this complex story to earn himself one of the film’s four Oscars. Stars Michael Douglas, Benicio Del Toro and Catherine Zeta-Jones.