In Mexico, police officer Javier Rodriguez ( Benicio del Toro) and his partner Manolo Sanchez ( Jacob Vargas) stop a drug transport and arrest the couriers. ( August 2021) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help improve it by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise. This article's plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed. In 2004, USA Network ran a miniseries-also called Traffic-based on this film and the 1989 British television series. It was also a commercial success with a worldwide box-office revenue total of $207.5 million, well above its estimated $46 million budget. Traffic earned numerous awards, including four Oscars: Best Director for Steven Soderbergh, Best Supporting Actor for Benicio del Toro, Best Adapted Screenplay for Stephen Gaghan and Best Film Editing for Stephen Mirrione. Traffic was released in the United States on Decemand received critical acclaim for Soderbergh's direction, the style, the complexity, the messages, and the performances (particularly del Toro's). Soderbergh operated the camera himself and adopted a distinctive color grade for each storyline so that audiences could tell them apart. USA Films, however, liked the project from the start and offered the filmmakers more money than Fox. Soderbergh refused and proposed the script to other major Hollywood studios, but it was rejected because of the three-hour running time and the subject matter- Traffic is more of a political film than most Hollywood productions. It features both English and Spanish-language dialogue.Ģ0th Century Fox, the original financiers of the film, demanded that Harrison Ford play a leading role and that significant changes to the screenplay be made. The film stars an international ensemble cast, including Don Cheadle, Benicio del Toro, Michael Douglas, Erika Christensen, Luis Guzmán, Dennis Quaid, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Jacob Vargas, Tomas Milian, Topher Grace, James Brolin, Steven Bauer, and Benjamin Bratt. The film is an adaptation of the 1989 British Channel 4 television series Traffik. Their stories are edited together throughout the film, although some of the characters do not meet each other. It explores the illegal drug trade from a number of perspectives: users, enforcers, politicians, and traffickers. Traffic is a 2000 American crime drama film directed by Steven Soderbergh and written by Stephen Gaghan.

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