Blow

Blow stars Johnny Depp (What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Fear and Lothing in Las Vegas, Edward Scissorhands), Paul Ruebens (PeeWee). It traces the life of George Jung, the man who began the crack business in America.
    Watching his parents lose everything they had to bankruptcy, George vowed early on that his life would not turn out that way. He would become successful, rich, no matter what. After a career as the high school football star, he left with his childhood freind "Tuna" for the sunny beaches and opportunities of California. His life there was as carefree as it could be in the innocent sixties, but he still had a problem of paying the rent. Along comes Tuna and a small bag of pot to solve the problem. George's groovy girlfriend Barbara introduces him to her effeminate but ultra hip hairdresser friend, Darren Furreal, who owned a wharehouse amount of the seductive weed in the back of his parlor. Thus begins George's life as a pot seller, making a name for himself, along with handsome wads of cash, all over the beach. Soon, the glistening beaches are small game for the ambitious George. He construts an elegant plan involoving sterwardess lover and one of his freinds. With marijuana in her suitcases, which do not get checked by policy, she bounds for the East Coast, where George once called home, and gives it to the freind to sell for quite a profit. Unfortunately, this life of almost free money is halted by the fuzz. Caoght with a huge load of pot in his possession, he is sent away for two years.
    But he is fine with this. What is two years? Soon he'll be out, and he'll just go right back to his business, with his beautiful lover at his side once again. But it's not that simple. Dear Barbara is dying of cancer. George skips bail to take care of her, but she slips from his grasp, forever.
    Now a fugitive, the heart-broken but determined young man comes back home after all these years. It is a tense reunion. His mother makes it clear that she has intentions of disowning him. His father, who was always the Good Time Charlie, is saddened, but glad to see him. The reunion is shaken once more when his mother calls the cops on him. He is taken to jail to serve his two years.
    It looks like the end, but he did not expect to be roomates with the man that helped turn his life around. A man named Diego Delgado takes him on as an apprentice in the lucrative business of cocaine, aka blow. Getting out early for volenterring to be the teacher at the jail school, he is told by Diego to get down to Mexico, breaking parole. He is introduced to the no-nonsense Pablo Escobar, the king of the crack trade. He uses George to smuggle the crack into America to sell there.
    The crack is very high quality, and gives George more money than he can handle. He has to buy a new house to hold it all in. At a party he meets a beautiful young fiancee, and falls in love with her. The two begin a meaningful and passionate relationship, blossoming into marriage and bringing to life George's most precious love: his daughter Kristina Sunshine Jung.
     Things get complicated. Diego betrays him to get more cash of his own, and even Darren gets involved in hurting him. Their freindship is at stake, but that is the least of his concerns. When he was shot in the midst of a tense meeting of drug lords to buy some of his blow, he was lucky to get out alive.
      A magnificent bash is held. The Cuban drug ring leaders and Darren is there. Darren and George make up. Soon the pary is crashed-by the FBI and the cops. As they drag everyone out, most of them waiting arrest, Kristina looks at her father helplessly from the arms of a cop. Her look of heart break at seeing this side of her dear father is very touching, and introduces a main theme.
     He escapes again, only to be captured once again, with plenty of help from his frustrated wife. A week bfore his release, she tells him in jail that she is divorcing him and taking Kristina with her. He continues to see her after he gets out, walking her to and from school every day, rebuilding their freindship.
     He undertakes one last drug deal, one that promises much, and strikes even more. He is arrested a final time, and faces a very long sentence. He minds that not, but suffers from disapointing his daughter once again. In the final scene, we see him delighted to see Kristina, now a teenager, standing near the entrance to the out door pen. He rushes to her, and they embrace, exchanging horribly touching words. The voice of the warden calls gently for George to come in with the rest of the inmates and awakens him from his stupor. He stumbles back to his cell, alone, just as he is even now. He will be released in 2015.