Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 124 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Strong
Why tonight?
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
The story
The story of how George Jung, together with the Medellín Cartel led by Pablo Escobar, established the billion-dollar cocaine empire in the United States in the 1970s.
- drug smuggling
- war on drugs
- drug trafficking
- 1970s
- drug addiction
- biography
- based on true story
- rise and fall
- docudrama
- cautionary
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Johnny Depp
George Jung
Penélope Cruz
Mirtha Jung
Franka Potente
Barbara Buckley
Rachel Griffiths
Ermine Jung
- Ray Liotta — Fred Jung
- Jordi Mollà — Diego Delgado
- Cliff Curtis — Pablo Escobar
- Paul Reubens — Derek Foreal
- Miguel Sandoval — Augusto Oliveras
- Max Perlich — Kevin Dulli
- Ethan Suplee — Tuna
- Kevin Gage — Leon Minghella
- Tony Amendola — Sanchez
- Jesse James — Young George
- Emma Roberts — Young Kristina Jung
- Directed
- Ted Demme
- Written
- Nick Cassavetes, David McKenna
Production
- Rating
- 7.4 / 10 · 4,681 ratings
- Studio
- New Line Cinema, Spanky Pictures, Apostle
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
