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.

Directed by
Ted Demme

Cast
Johnny Depp - George Jung
Penelope Cruz - Mirtha Jung
Franka Potente - Barbara Buckley
Ray Liotta - Fred Jung
Rachel Griffiths - Ermine Jung
Paul Reubens - Derek Foreal
Jordi Molla - Diego Delgado
Cliff Curtis - Escobar
Miguel Sandoval - Augusto Oliveras
Ethan Suplee - Tuna

Production Co.
Apostle Films
AD Pictures

Produced by
Georgia Kacandes
Michael de Luca
Ted Demme

Studio
New Line Cinema

Writer
Bruce Porter
David McKenna

Music
Graeme Revell