Traffic
No one gets away clean
Country
Production
Budget
$48 000 000
Box office
$207 515 725
Director
Actors
Scenario
Producer
Edward Zwick, Marshall Herskovitz, Laura Bickford, Richard Solomon, Mike Newell, Graham King, Andreas Klein, Cameron Jones
Camera operator
Composer
Artist
Philip Messina, Blair Huizingh
Audition
Editing
Short description
An exploration of the United States of America's war on drugs from multiple perspectives. For the new head of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the war becomes personal when he discovers his well-educated daughter is abusing cocaine within their comfortable suburban home. In Mexico, a flawed, but noble policeman agrees to testify against a powerful general in league with a cartel, and in San Diego, a drug kingpin's sheltered trophy wife must learn her husband's ruthless business after he is arrested, endangering her luxurious lifestyle.
What's left behind the scenes
- The idea for the film arose after one of its creators watched a television series with the same theme – drugs.
- According to the script, Catherine Zeta-Jones' character was not pregnant; it was a kind of improvisation by the actress herself, which Soderbergh supported.
- The scene in which Michael Douglas' character goes to the border in California was actually filmed on the border in Tijuana (a city in Mexico). The image and sound quality are quite low, partly because the footage was not originally intended to be included in the film, and Steven Soderbergh filmed it with a handheld camera. Douglas was already out of character at that moment and started talking to the customs officer about smuggling drugs across the border. The officer began to respond, and Soderbergh filmed everything hoping the officer wouldn’t address the actor as “Mr. Douglas.”
- Scenes in the White House were filmed on the sets of the television series “The West Wing” (1999-2006), which are a practically exact replica of the White House interiors (simply made slightly wider than reality to allow for more freedom of camera movement and other filming equipment).
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