Traffic
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Genre: Thriller, Crime Fiction, Gangster, Political drama, Crime Thriller, Drama
Year: 2001
Country: United States of America
Language: Spanish Language, English Language
Starring: Michael Douglas, Benicio del Toro, Don Cheadle, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Dennis Quaid, Benjamin Bratt, Erika Christensen, Topher Grace, Steven Bauer, Tomas Milian, Jsu Garcia, Luis Guzmán, Miguel Ferrer, Jacob Vargas, Clifton Collins, Jr., Amy Irving, Majandra Delfino, Alec Roberts, Michael O'Neill, James Brolin, Albert Finney, D.W. Moffett, Peter Riegert, Mary Pat Gleason, James Pickens Jr., Salma Hayek, John Slattery, Yul Vazquez, Viola Davis, Corey Spears, Jack Conley
Traffic is a 2000 American crime drama film directed by Steven Soderbergh and written by Stephen Gaghan. It explores the illegal drug trade from a number of perspectives: a user, an enforcer, a politician and a trafficker. Their stories are edited together throughout the film, although some of the characters do not meet each other. The film is an adaptation of the British Channel 4 television series Traffik.
20th Century Fox, the original financiers of the film, demanded Harrison Ford play a leading role and that significant changes to the screenplay be made. 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. USA Films, however, liked the project from the start and offered the film-makers more money than Fox. Soderbergh operated the camera himself and adopted a distinctive cinematography tint for each story so that audiences could tell them apart.
Traffic was critically acclaimed and earned numerous awards, including four Oscars for Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, Best Film Editing, and Best Adapted Screenplay. It was also a commercial success with a worldwide total of
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