A high-ranking judge with a vendetta against drugs learns his own daughter is a cocaine addict - a San Diego housewife must suddenly take over her husband's drug dealing business when he is arrested - a Mexican police officer struggles to do the right thing in the midst of corruption. Michael Douglas, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Benicio Del Toro star in Steven Soderbergh's amazing intertwined stories of the failing war on drugs.
Directed by
Steven Soderbergh
Written by
Simon Moore (mini-series Traffik); Stephen Gaghan (screenplay).
Starring
Benicio Del Toro (Javier Rodriguez); Jacob Vargas (Manolo Sanchez); Andrew Chavez (Desert Truck Driver); Michael Saucedo (Desert Truck Driver); Tomas Milian (General Arturo Salazar); Jose Yenque (Salazar Soldier / Torturer); Emilio Rivera (Salazar Soldier #2); Michael O'Neill (Lawyer Rodman); Michael Douglas (Robert Wakefield); Russell G. Jones (Mark). Please contact SFC to add other cast members and characters.
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