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Traffic / directed by Steven Soderbergh ; screenplay by Stephen Gaghan ; produced by Edward Zwick, Marshall Herskovitz, Laura Bickford ; a Bedford Falls/Laura Bickford production ; a USA Films presentation in association with Initial Entertainment Group.
LIBRA BLU RAY PN1997 .T7344 2012 disc + insert
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Criterion collection ; 151.
- Criterion collection ; 151
- Standardized Title:
- Traffic (Motion picture)
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Drug traffic--Fiction.
- Drug traffic.
- Undercover operations--California--San Diego--Drama.
- Undercover operations.
- Substance abuse--Drama.
- Substance abuse.
- California--San Diego.
- Genre:
- Crime films
- Drama
- Feature films
- Fiction
- Fiction films
- Thrillers (Motion pictures)
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Crime films.
- Feature films.
- Fiction films.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (147 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + insert (1 folded leaf ; 18 cm)
- Edition:
- Director-approved Blu-ray special ed.
- Place of Publication:
- [New York] : Criterion Collection, [2012]
- Language Note:
- English and Spanish dialogue; optional English subtitles.
- System Details:
- Blu-ray, Region A; widescreen (1.78:1 aspect ratio); dts-HD 5.1 suround sound.
- Requires Blu-ray player.
- Summary:
- A mix of interrelated stories: a Mexican policeman finds himself and his partner caught in an often deadly web of corruption; a pair of DEA agents work undercover in a sordid and dangerous part of San Diego; a wealthy drug baron living in upscale, suburban America is arrested and learns how quickly his unknowing and pampered wife takes over his business; and the U.S. President's new drug czar must deal with his increasingly drug-addicted teenage daughter.
- Participant:
- Don Cheadle, Benicio Del Toro, Michael Douglas, Luis Guzman, Dennis Quaid, Catherine Zeta-Jones.
- Credits:
- Director of photography, Peter Andrews ; editor, Stephen Mirrione ; music, Cliff Martinez.
- Notes:
- Title from container.
- Originally released as a motion picture in 2000.
- Blu-ray release date: Jan. 17, 2012.
- Academy Awards: Best director, Best supporting actor, Best adapted screenplay, Best film editing.
- Special features: three audio commentaries, featuring Soderbergh and writer Stephen Gaghan; producers Laura Bickford, Edward Zwick, and Marshall Herskovitz and consultants Tim Golden and Craig Chretien; and composer Cliff Martinez ; 25 deleted scenes, with optional commentary by Soderbergh and Gaghan ; 3 sets of demonstrations: one on film processing and the look of the Mexico sequences; one on film editing, with commentary by editor Stephen Mirrione; and one on dialogue editing ; additional unused footage of various scenes, from multiple angles ; theatrical trailers and television spots ; gallery of trading cards depicting the U.S. Customs canine squad used to detect narcotics and other illegal substances ; An essay by film critic Manohla Dargis (in booklet).
- ISBN:
- 9781604655339
- 160465533X
- OCLC:
- 759521501
- Publisher Number:
- 715515090810
- CC2102BD The Criterion Collection
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