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	Traffic (2000 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Traffic is a film directed by Steven Soderbergh that explores the intricacies of the illegal drug trade from a number of perspectives: user, enforcer, politician and trafficker.
		Harrison Ford was originally sought for the film, but he turned down the opportunity in favour of starring in K-19: The Widowmaker: a decision described by the magazine Total Film as the 5th "dumbest decision in movie history".
		Based loosely around the British Channel 4 television series Traffik, the film avoids sanctimony and was responsible for renewed discussion of drug issues in the United States.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Traffic_(2000_movie) (218 words)

	Traffic. A Hollywood Jesus Movie Review
		Traffic had an amazing cast of actors who all should all be recognized for their work in bringing the world of drugs, which so often those of us who live in suburbs or who are not directly affected by drugs ignore, to vivid life.
		Traffic is a gritty movie that employs many different techniques to convey the imagery and the feelings of the drug world.
		In the end the characters and incidents in the movie question the impact the efforts of the DEA and other drug enforcement agencies are having in the war on drugs.
	www.hollywoodjesus.com /traffic.htm (2698 words)

	The Ultimate Traffic (disambiguation) - American History Information Guide and Reference
		traffic is a term describing the movement of vehicles.
		Traffic was a rock band from England formed in the 1960s by Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi, Chris Wood and Dave Mason.
		Traffic is a 2001 movie directed by Steven Soderbergh involving drug trafficking.
	www.historymania.com /american_history/Traffic_%28disambiguation%29 (151 words)

	Reel Criticism - Quills (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		That being said I do believe that "Traffic" will still be one of the best films of this year (not of last, I am not going to acknowledge the limited release done to give it Oscar eligibility) as it had many fine points to it.
		"Traffic" was not simply about one story but four stories that as the movie progresses all slowly mesh into one.
		"Traffic" does still contain slivers of brilliance and scenes that will have you glued down to your seat but they are spotted and sandwiched in between a lot of nothing.
	www.reelcriticism.com /reviews/review_traffic.html (1483 words)

	Jigsaw Lounge - Traffic
		Traffic is one of the year’s big, awards-heavy critical wows, and while no masterpiece, it is a very good, intelligent picture for adults: well-intentioned, well-written, well-directed, and well-edited, niftily juggling three parallel plot lines:
		Traffic is the work of a confident, talented, storytelling director on a major roll - it’s only been a few months since Erin Brockovich, after all.
		Traffic is an issues drama in the vein of The Insider, but with the ensemble cast and interlocking stories of Magnolia or a Robert Altman, but it falls a long way short of the dazzling euphoria those models so often evoke.
	www.jigsawlounge.co.uk /film/traffic.html (483 words)

	Traffic (2000 movie): Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Traffic (2000 movie) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Traffic (2000 movie): Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Traffic (2000 movie)
		Traffic is a film directed by Steven Soderbergh that explores the intricacies of the illegal drug trade from a number of perspectives: user, politician, trafficker.
		Rumour has it that George W. Bush sat down with his drug czar[?] and told him to watch Traffic, saying, this is what is what the drug situation is like in America.
	www.encyclopedian.com /tr/Traffic-(film).html (137 words)

	Critic Doctor (Herb Kane) - TRAFFIC/**** (R), Michael Douglas, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Benicio Del Toro, Erika ...
		However, when you get stuck in the movie "Traffic" for 2 ½ hours at the theater, you won't be frustrated.
		Perhaps "Traffic" should be called "Freeway Accident," because it offers three lanes of stories involving cops and dealers and they all eventually collide together.
		Regardless of how "Traffic" ends, you will be driven to pay attention to one of the most controversial issues in society.
	www.criticdoctor.com /reviews/traffic.html (721 words)

	Traffic - a Movie Review of The Phantom Tollbooth
		Steven Soderbergh's new film, Traffic, arrives in Chicago already hailed as one of the best films of the year (the year 2000, according to Hollywood's dysfunctional dating system), winning the Best Picture nod from the New York Film Critics and capturing the runner-up prize from the National Film Critics Society and the LA Film Critics.
		In a movie centered around the drug war and with as many storylines as Traffic has, this omission is striking.
		Instead, the only inner-city figure is a highly-sexualized drug dealer (he has the only nude scene in the movie), whose sole narrative purpose seems to be to scare the heck out of every suburban white parent in America.
	www.tollbooth.org /2001/movies/traffic.html (659 words)

	Traffic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Traffic is neither the savior of the 2000 moviegoing season nor Soderbergh's fall from grace.
		Traffic was shot using natural light sources with a handheld camera operated by Soderbergh himself.
		At their best, Altman's movies construct a space for an organic community to live and breathe; the events themselves are given no more weight than the offhand gesture or spontaneous, half-heard insight.
	www.culturevulture.net /Movies2/Traffic.htm (1090 words)

	The Popcorn Gallery: Traffic (2000) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The story of the Wakefield family is probably the most familiar and accessible to mainstream audiences, and the tale of a girl hooked on drugs and unwilling to commit herself to rehab is nothing new.
		But "Traffic" depicts this subplot with such stark honesty that it is far more effective than most treatments of the material.
		What "Traffic" does accomplish is simply to raise the level of awareness of just how complex an issue this really is. Politicians and activists who attempt to dismiss or address the problem with glib words and handy catchphrases are neither helping nor, increasingly, fooling anybody.
	www.physics.mun.ca /%7Esps/movies/Traffic.html (1014 words)

	AboutFilm.com - Traffic (2000)
		What Traffic achieves, and what makes it a great, landmark film is that it acknowledges our culpability and how at odds we are with the avowed intent to eradicate drugs.
		Traffic works so well not because of its content, but how its content is communicated, and how it manages to accrue feeling scene by scene to its magnificent finale.
		Policy decisions are so thorny that one could come out Traffic with the equally valid, but opposite notions that the film supports a hardline anti-drug stance and a libertarian legalization stance.
	www.aboutfilm.com /movies/t/traffic.htm (921 words)

	NYPOST.COM Movie Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Perhaps most impressive of all is the bracingly honest way director Steven Soderbergh presents the drug war in all its vastness (the corruption of whole governments) and at its most intimate (the destruction of an individual family), and depicts the struggle as depressingly futile, but at the same time desperately necessary.
		"Traffic" is based on a successful British miniseries of the 1980s, but Soderbergh and screenwriter Steven Gaghan have shifted the action from the Pakistan-to-England heroin route to the Mexico-U.S.A. cocaine trade via California.
		One of the many extraordinary things about "Traffic" is the cast: The movie is reminiscent of those giant war movies "A Bridge Too Far" and "The Longest Day," in which one famous actor after another pops up in small roles.
	www.nypost.com /movies/18927.htm (641 words)

	Review: Traffic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Traffic looks at a wide sampling of aspects of the drug trade: the men who police it on both sides of the border, the government officials who carry out the so-called war, the people who get rich by distributing it, and the victims who debase themselves to get the money for their next fix.
		Traffic's anti-drug message is not as in-your-face as the visceral one presented in Requiem for a Dream, but, at times, it comes close.
		The narrative pallet of Traffic is rich, tightly woven, and consistently involving, with characters that are as well developed as their necessarily limited screen time allows.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/t/traffic.html (1313 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Entertainment Guide
		This film aims to be a manifesto for the chemical generation, the hundreds of thousands of teenagers and young adults who live for the blissed-out community of the dance floor, a kinship facilitated by both intoxicating electronic dance music and ecstasy, the synthetic drug that induces euphoric feelings of empathy and love.
		The film is peppered with them, which suggests that the director has spent a lot of time contemplating early Woody Allen as well as the toilet scene of "Trainspotting." Not all of these flights of fancy work--the one in which Jip is assaulted by his boss is both tasteless and unfunny.
		HUMAN TRAFFIC (99 minutes, at the Cineplex Odeon Dupont) is rated R for profanity and sexual situations.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/entertainment/movies/reviews/humantrafficwartofsky.htm (817 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - Traffic: Criterion Collection
		Traffic is doubtless a difficult movie to transfer to DVD, and Criterion does a fine job.
		While Traffic, and Criterion's thorough DVD release, take themselves very seriously, in the end, I cannot help but be reminded of the old anti-drug films of the 1930s.
		In this, for all Traffic's attempts to function as an encyclopedia of the drug war, something is missing at the very heart of Soderbergh's film: the human element.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/traffic.php (1758 words)

	Traffic (2000) - Moovees.com Review
		The first indication that Traffic is a great film is the sense that each of these stories is good enough to warrant a movie of its own.
		Some people may be disappointed that Traffic doesn't really move them on an emotional level, but for the film to blatantly do so would be a betrayal to its even-handedness and might even make it less powerful.
		Traffic is a brilliant work of art that depicts all sides of a controversial issue, and then allows logic to draw the conclusions rather than manipulate its audience.
	www.moovees.com /review/traffic.html (805 words)

	Traffic movie info - dvds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Traffic is about America's obsession of the drug war.
		A Ohio supreme court justice (Douglas) is appointed the position of "drug czar" and oversees the operations of eliminating the Mexican cartels.
		First was the entertaining "Erin Brockovich", then the tense, complicated, well-acted "Traffic", which was probably the best movie of last year and which won Soderbergh the Oscar for Best Director.
	www.mooviees.com /1719-traffic/movie (567 words)

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	DVD Review: Traffic
		The movie tells a few different stories that really don't often link up in a cinematic way, but in a different way, the lives of the characters all are connected in their world, simply further up or further down the chain.
		In terms of the two "drug" films of 2000, I have to say I was a little more impressed with Darren Aronofsky's "Requiem For A Dream", but "Traffic" also remains an outstanding picture.
		Inside Traffic: This is an 18 minute feature that is simply a promotional effort, with interviews talking about the story and really, not much in the way of information.
	www.currentfilm.com /dvdreviews2/trafficdvd.html (934 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Traffic at Epinions.com
		Traffic has a pseudo-documentary feel that is enhanced by the virtual lack of score and comic relief.
		Traffic was also nominated for its editing (Stephen Mirrione) and the adapted screenplay (Stephen Gaghan).
		Traffic managed to sweep all of the categories it was nominated in, except for Best Picture which went to the box office goliath Gladiator.
	briankoller.epinions.com /content_76855217796 (871 words)

	JoBlo reviews the movie "Traffic"
		Well, the movie is definitely a solid one, but allow me to take this opportunity to lower your expectations a little, so that you won't find yourself in a pickle like me. You see, the fact that I went in "expecting too much", left me a little disappointed, despite it being a really good movie.
		In fact, the movie is actually quite pessimistic in its way of dealing with this issue, and that's probably because this continuing epidemic is not exactly an optimistic proposition to begin with.
		Some of the movie is based on fact, for example the Mexican general being on the payroll of the Juarez Cartel.
	www.joblo.com /traffic.htm (1325 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Traffic at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The movie features a series of stories that are told over the course of the film.
		I referenced that movie because Traffic in a way is to the war on Drugs what that 1972 classic and its sequels were to organized crime.
		Traffic shows the drug war as it affects both sides.
	www.epinions.com /content_23397437060 (848 words)

	Traffic
		"Traffic" is one of the best movies of the year, I'm not kidding.
		The storyline of the movie is simalr to that of P.T. Anderson's "Magnolia" or Robert Altman's "Short Cuts" in the sense that it's a bunch of seperate characters whose stories are all woven together with one general theme.
		The movie does a good job of showing all kinds of coruption in Mexican law enforcment, so I've decided never to go to Mexico.
	www.movie-vault.com /reviews/SWzmivxOhaSQwavt (340 words)

	BBC News \| WORLD \| The truth behind the Traffic
		Traffic, which opened in UK cinemas on Friday, is Hollywood's best attempt for many years at tackling the thorny subject of the drugs trade.
		Chapman says while Traffic is a good movie, he fears the message it may put over is that the DEA is losing the war against drugs.
		He says this is far from the case and points out that drug use in the US has been reduced by 50% since the late 1970s.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/world/newsid_1117000/1117363.stm (898 words)

	Traffic (2000) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The topic drugs is clearly highly talked about especially in the United States, and this is actually the first movie which shows all aspects of it.
		The only thing I found when watching the movie was that the switching between movielines happened a little too often.
		Traffic is a film that has to sink in, when you start to think about it it just gets better and better.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0181865 (711 words)

	Spirituality & Health: Movie Review: Traffic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In a time when many American filmmakers are reluctant to take on controversy with stories critiquing major institutions or dealing with complex moral issues, Steven Soderbergh in 2000 did the nearly impossible — created two hard-hitting works of social conscience in the same year.
		Loosely based on a British miniseries about the global dimensions of drug trafficking, Stephen Gaghan's multidimentional screenplay, which garnered him an Oscar, tells three interweaving stories about the vast use of mood-altering substances and their invasion of every aspect of American life.
		In Tijuana, state policeman Javier Rodriguez (Benicio Del Toro, the Academy Award winner for Best Actor in a Supporting Role) and his partner Manolo (Jacob Vargas) face daily temptations to break the law and profit from the growing drug trade in Mexico, which is handled by two competing cartels.
	www.spiritualityhealth.com /newsh/items/moviereview/item_2570.html (673 words)

	DVD Savant Review: Traffic
		Traffic is a socially-conscious liberal 'issue' movie, the kind conservatives decry as slanted and biased.
		The trick is to not be condescending: the common denominator of all three movies is that very intelligent liberal filmmakers have tried to make the movie they think the public is ready to see.
		If the movie is refreshing, it's because it's bluntly honest in showing affluent kids turning on, drug cops knowing full well they're running up sand hills ('some day I wanna make big arrests, you know, white people'), and an entire planeload of bureaucrats without a single idea to offer on how to do their jobs.
	www.dvdtalk.com /dvdsavant/s259traff.html (1682 words)

	IGN: Traffic Trailer, Wallpaper, Pictures, Soundtrack and More.
		First is that of the drug dealers, you know, like the neighborhood dealer (either the crackhead on the corner with a fistfull of vials or the suit-n-tie fool sellin' the pharmaceutical grade stuff to Wall Street walkers, take your pick as they're both represented here).
		The movie is essentially told in three segments, which simultaneously stand alone all the while interweaving amongst themselves.
		The actress discusses how she related to her Traffic role of lassaiz-faire mother Barbara Wakefield, how Steven Soderbergh's directing methods compare to other directors, and what projects she has on the way.
	filmforce.ign.com /moremovies/objects/33789.html (456 words)

	MovieJuice!: Traffic - "Rush" Hour
		Traffic is easily one of the year's best movies.
		Traffic consists of several barely intersecting stories set on both sides of the Mexican border - the orange side and the blue side.
		Even Salma Hayek appears for a few seconds, but long enough to prove that, as we've always suspected, she can indeed speak Spanish better than English, and a few seconds of screen time are always better than a few seconds more.
	www.moviejuice.com /2000/traffic.htm (645 words)

	Traffic (2000) Movie Review by Brandon Herring at The Movie Insider
		His use of different colors for each story is pure brilliance, and complete originality, the use of the camera, the graininess throughout the film, and the style to which he directs his fantastic.
		The cast is another story all together, every single person in this movie is amazing in their own way, to start Michael Douglas gives one of his best performances to date and he graces the screen and shows that he is a true actor.
		Stephen Soderbergh's Traffic to me can rank up there with mosaic's such as Nashville and Magnolia, its study of the character's and their lives is that of nothing ever seen before.
	www.themovieinsider.com /reviews/rid/40 (851 words)

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