Additional information for Traffic, which has a domestic theatrical release set for December 27, 2000. The film is being distributed by USA Films and has not yet been rated. The film's total running time is still unknown.
16
Iceland
PG-13
Philippines
18
Brazil
16
Germany
16
Argentina
MA
Australia
14A
Canada
14
Chile
15
Denmark
K-15
Finland
U
France
IIB
Hong Kong
16
Netherlands
M
New Zealand
15
Norway
14
Peru
M/16
Portugal
R(A)
Singapore
18
South Korea
13
Spain
15
Sweden
16
Switzerland
18
UK
R
USA
December 27, 2000
USA
December 27, 2000
USA
January 5, 2001
Canada
January 5, 2001
USA
January 26, 2001
Greece
January 26, 2001
UK
February 8, 2001
Germany
February 9, 2001
Spain
March 1, 2001
Argentina
March 2, 2001
Norway
March 7, 2001
Belgium
March 7, 2001
France
March 8, 2001
Australia
March 9, 2001
Finland
March 9, 2001
Italy
March 9, 2001
South Africa
March 9, 2001
Sweden
March 10, 2001
South Korea
March 10, 2001
Taiwan
March 15, 2001
Hong Kong
March 15, 2001
New Zealand
March 15, 2001
Singapore
March 16, 2001
Brazil
March 16, 2001
Denmark
March 16, 2001
Iceland
March 19, 2001
Mexico
March 22, 2001
Israel
March 22, 2001
Netherlands
March 22, 2001
Peru
March 23, 2001
Turkey
March 28, 2001
Egypt
March 29, 2001
Kazakhstan
March 29, 2001
Switzerland
April 5, 2001
Germany
April 7, 2001
Kuwait
April 20, 2001
Estonia
April 20, 2001
Lithuania
April 28, 2001
Japan
May 11, 2001
Poland
May 23, 2001
Philippines
September 6, 2001
Slovenia
January 24, 2002
Czech Republic
May 30, 2002
Hungary
No One Gets Away Clean
The film begins in Mexico, where police officer Javier Rodriguez Rodriguez (Del Toro) and his partner, Manolo, stop a drug transport and arrest the couriers. Their arrest is interrupted by General Salazar (Milian), a high-ranking Mexican official. The general decides to hire Javier and instructs him to locate and apprehend Frankie Flowers (Collins, Jr.) a notorious hit man for the Tijuana Obregón Drug Cartel.
Meanwhile, Robert Wakefield (Douglas), a conservative Ohio Judge, is appointed to be head of the President's Office of National Drug Control, taking the title of Drug Czar. Wakefield is warned by his predecessor and several influential politicians that the war on drugs is unwinnable. Unbeknownst to Wakefield, his honor student daughter, Caroline (Christensen) is using cocaine and falls victim to drug addiction when she is introduced to freebase cocaine by her boyfriend, Seth (Grace). She and Seth are arrested when another student at her high school overdoses on drugs and they try to dump him anonymously at a nearby hospital. Robert finds out that his wife Barbara (Irving) has known about their daughter's involvement with drugs for over six months.
In the third main story, which is set in San Diego, an undercover Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) investigation led by Montel Gordon (Cheadle) and Ray Castro (Guzmán), arrest Eduardo Ruiz (Ferrer), the high-stakes dealer posing as a fisherman. In the process, Ruiz is hospitalized and decides to risk the dangerous road to immunity by giving up his boss: drug lord Carlos Ayala (Bauer), the biggest distributor for the Óbregon brothers in the United States. Ayala is prosecuted by a tough prosecutor hand selected by Wakefield in an attempt to send a message to the Mexican drug organizations through a conviction against the drug lord.
Flowers is tortured and eventually gives Salazar the names of several important members of the Óbregon Drug Cartel, who are arrested in a large effort by police and army soldiers. Javier and Salazar's efforts start to cripple the Óbregon brothers cocaine outfit, but Javier soon discovers that Salazar is a pawn for the Juárez Cartel, the rival of the Óbregon brothers. The entire Mexican anti-drug campaign is a fraud, as Salazar is wiping out one cartel, not out of duty, but rather because he has aligned himself with another cartel for profit.
Wakefield realizes that his daughter is a drug addict and finds himself caught between his demanding new position and his worrisome family life. When he heads to Mexico, he is encouraged by the successful efforts of Salazar hurting the Óbregon brothers. When he returns to Ohio, Robert learns that his efforts to see Caroline rehabilitated have failed, and she escaped into the city where no one knows her location. Secretly, she's forced to prostitute herself and rob her parents to procure money for drugs.
As the trial against Carlos Ayala begins, Carlos' wife, Helena (Zeta-Jones) learns of her husband's true profession. With her husband facing life imprisonment and death threats against her only child, she decides to hire Flowers to assassinate Eduardo Ruiz. She knows that killing Ruiz will effectively end the trial nolle prosequi.
Javier's partner, Manolo sells the information to the DEA, but is killed for his betrayal. Javier, who can no longer stomach working for Salazar, decides to cut a deal with the only non-corrupt organization he has access to the Federal government of the United States and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. In exchange for his testimony, Javier requests electricity in his neighborhood, so that kids can play baseball at night rather than be tempted by street gangs and crime. General Salazar's secrets are revealed to the public. He is arrested and tortured to death shortly after.
Wakefield begins a search for his daughter and drags along Seth. After being threatened and nearly killed by a drug dealer, he breaks into a seedy hotel room in Cincinnati and finds a semi-conscious Caroline prostituting herself to an older man. Wakefield returns to Washington, D.C., to give his prepared speech on a "10-point plan" to combat the war on drugs. In the middle of the speech, he falters, then tells the press that on a war on drugs is a war against many of our own family members, which he cannot endorse. He quits his job and heads home.
Flowers's assassination attempt on Ruiz fails, when he himself is assassinated for his betrayal by a sniper working for the Óbregon Cartel. Helena, knowing that Ruiz is soon to testify, then makes a deal with Juan Óbregon (Bratt), lord of the drug cartel, who forgives the debt of the Ayala family and murders Ruiz. Carlos Ayala is released, much to the discomfort of Montel Gordon, who lost his partner, Castro, when Frankie tried to assassinate Ruiz with a car bomb. Soon after, Montel bursts into the Ayala residence and illegally plants a microphone under one of the tables, before being kicked out.
Robert and Barbara begin to go to Narcotics Anonymous meetings with their daughter, to support her and everyone else there. Javier takes the media to Mexico and explains what he can about the widespread corruption in the police force and army. The film concludes with him watching some Mexican children playing baseball at night, at their new stadium.
Steven Soderbergh
Director(s)
Simon Moore
Stephen Gaghan
Writer(s)
Laura Bickford
producer
Marshall Herskovitz
producer
Cameron Jones
executive producer
Graham King
executive producer
Andreas Klein
executive producer
Mike Newell
executive producer
Richard Solomon
executive producer
Edward Zwick
producer
Producer(s)
Cliff Martinez
Composer(s)
Javier Rodriguez
Benicio Del Toro
Manolo Sanchez
Jacob Vargas
Desert Truck Driver
Andrew Chavez
Desert Truck Driver
Michael Saucedo
General Arturo Salazar
Tomas Milian
Salazar Soldier / The Torturer
Jose Yenque
Salazar Soldier #2
Emilio Rivera
Lawyer Rodman
Michael O'Neill
Robert Wakefield
Michael Douglas
Clerk
Russell G. Jones
State Capitol Reporter #1
Lorene Hetherington
State Capitol Reporter #2
Eric Collins
DEA Agent - CalTrans
Beau Holden
DEA Agent - CalTrans
Peter Stader
DEA Agent - CalTrans
James Lew
DEA Agent - CalTrans
Jeremy Fitzgerald
DEA Agent - CalTrans
Russell Solberg
Ray Castro (as Luis Guzman)
Luis Guzmán
Montel Gordon
Don Cheadle
DEA Agent - Trailer
Don Snell
DEA Agent
Enrique Murciano
DEA Agent - Trailer (as Gary Carlos Cervantes)
Gary Cervantes
Ruiz's Secretary
Leticia Bombardier
Eduardo Ruiz
Miguel Ferrer
Ruiz's Assistant
Carl Ciarfalio
Van Driver (as Steve Lambert)
Steven Lambert
Van Passenger
Gilbert Rosales
DEA Agent - Public Storage
Rick Avery
DEA Agent - Public Storage
Mario Roberts
DEA Agent - Public Storage
Eileen Weisinger
DEA Agent - Public Storage
Keii Johnston
DEA Agent - Public Storage
Mike Watson
DEA Agent - Public Storage (as Kurt Lott)
Kurt D. Lott
DEA Agent - Public Storage
Lincoln Simonds
DEA Agent - Public Storage
Steve Tomaski
DEA Agent - Public Storage
Buck McDancer
DEA Agent - Public Storage
John Callery
DEA Agent - Public Storage
Ousaun Elam
DEA Agent - Public Storage
Brian Avery
F*****-up Bowman
Corey Spears
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Traffic - Die Macht des Kartells
Germany
Traffik
USA
Traffic
Argentina
Narkoäri
Estonia
Putevi droge
Serbia
Traffic
Denmark
Traffic
Brazil
Traffic
Finland
Traffic
Poland
Traffic
France
Traffic - Die Macht des Kartells
Austria
Traffic - Ninguém Sai Ileso
Portugal
Trafic
Canada: French title
Traficantes
Spain
Trafik
Turkey: Turkish title
A conservative judge is appointed by the President to spearhead America's escalating war against drugs, only to discover that his teenage daughter is an addict.
Meanwhile, Robert Wakefield (Douglas), a conservative Ohio Judge, is appointed to be head of the President's Office of National Drug Control, taking the title of Drug Czar. Wakefield is warned by his predecessor and several influential politicians that the war on drugs is unwinnable. Unbeknownst to Wakefield, his honor student daughter, Caroline (Christensen) is using cocaine and falls victim to drug addiction when she is introduced to freebase cocaine by her boyfriend, Seth (Grace). She and Seth are arrested when another student at her high school overdoses on drugs and they try to dump him anonymously at a nearby hospital. Robert finds out that his wife Barbara (Irving) has known about their daughter's involvement with drugs for over six months.
In the third main story, which is set in San Diego, an undercover Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) investigation led by Montel Gordon (Cheadle) and Ray Castro (Guzmán), arrest Eduardo Ruiz (Ferrer), the high-stakes dealer posing as a fisherman. In the process, Ruiz is hospitalized and decides to risk the dangerous road to immunity by giving up his boss: drug lord Carlos Ayala (Bauer), the biggest distributor for the Óbregon brothers in the United States. Ayala is prosecuted by a tough prosecutor hand selected by Wakefield in an attempt to send a message to the Mexican drug organizations through a conviction against the drug lord.
Flowers is tortured and eventually gives Salazar the names of several important members of the Óbregon Drug Cartel, who are arrested in a large effort by police and army soldiers. Javier and Salazar's efforts start to cripple the Óbregon brothers cocaine outfit, but Javier soon discovers that Salazar is a pawn for the Juárez Cartel, the rival of the Óbregon brothers. The entire Mexican anti-drug campaign is a fraud, as Salazar is wiping out one cartel, not out of duty, but rather because he has aligned himself with another cartel for profit.
Wakefield realizes that his daughter is a drug addict and finds himself caught between his demanding new position and his worrisome family life. When he heads to Mexico, he is encouraged by the successful efforts of Salazar hurting the Óbregon brothers. When he returns to Ohio, Robert learns that his efforts to see Caroline rehabilitated have failed, and she escaped into the city where no one knows her location. Secretly, she's forced to prostitute herself and rob her parents to procure money for drugs.
As the trial against Carlos Ayala begins, Carlos' wife, Helena (Zeta-Jones) learns of her husband's true profession. With her husband facing life imprisonment and death threats against her only child, she decides to hire Flowers to assassinate Eduardo Ruiz. She knows that killing Ruiz will effectively end the trial nolle prosequi.
Javier's partner, Manolo sells the information to the DEA, but is killed for his betrayal. Javier, who can no longer stomach working for Salazar, decides to cut a deal with the only non-corrupt organization he has access to the Federal government of the United States and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. In exchange for his testimony, Javier requests electricity in his neighborhood, so that kids can play baseball at night rather than be tempted by street gangs and crime. General Salazar's secrets are revealed to the public. He is arrested and tortured to death shortly after.
Wakefield begins a search for his daughter and drags along Seth. After being threatened and nearly killed by a drug dealer, he breaks into a seedy hotel room in Cincinnati and finds a semi-conscious Caroline prostituting herself to an older man. Wakefield returns to Washington, D.C., to give his prepared speech on a "10-point plan" to combat the war on drugs. In the middle of the speech, he falters, then tells the press that on a war on drugs is a war against many of our own family members, which he cannot endorse. He quits his job and heads home.
Flowers's assassination attempt on Ruiz fails, when he himself is assassinated for his betrayal by a sniper working for the Óbregon Cartel. Helena, knowing that Ruiz is soon to testify, then makes a deal with Juan Óbregon (Bratt), lord of the drug cartel, who forgives the debt of the Ayala family and murders Ruiz. Carlos Ayala is released, much to the discomfort of Montel Gordon, who lost his partner, Castro, when Frankie tried to assassinate Ruiz with a car bomb. Soon after, Montel bursts into the Ayala residence and illegally plants a microphone under one of the tables, before being kicked out.
Robert and Barbara begin to go to Narcotics Anonymous meetings with their daughter, to support her and everyone else there. Javier takes the media to Mexico and explains what he can about the widespread corruption in the police force and army. The film concludes with him watching some Mexican children playing baseball at night, at their new stadium.
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