Soderbergh successfully pulls off the highly ambitious Traffic, a movie with three different stories and a very large cast. The issues of ethics are gray rather than black-and-white, with no clear-cut good guys. Terrific acting all around.
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Movie Info
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Director -
Steven Soderbergh -
Producer -
Laura Bickford , Marshall Herskovitz , Edward Zwick -
Screenwriter -
Simon Moore , Stephen Gaghan -
Distributor -
Criterion Collection , USA Films -
Production Co -
Initial Entertainment Group , USA Films , Bedford Falls Productions , Compulsion Inc. -
Rating -
R (Some Sexuality|Pervasive Drug Content|Strong Language|Violence) -
Genre -
Crime , Drama -
Original Language -
English -
Release Date (Theaters) -
Jan 5, 2001, Wide -
Release Date (Streaming) -
Sep 10, 2015 -
Box Office (Gross USA) -
$124.1M -
Runtime -
2h 27m -
Sound Mix -
Dolby SR , DTS , SDDS , Surround , Dolby A , Dolby Digital -
Aspect Ratio -
Flat (1.85:1)