
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.
Cast[]
- Benicio Del Toro as Officer Javier Rodriguez, Mexican Police
- Jacob Vargas as Officer Manolo Sanchez, Mexican Police
- Marisol Padilla Sánchez as Ana Sanchez, Mancholo's wife
- Tomás Milián as General Arturo Salazar
- Michael Douglas as Judge Robert Wakefield
- Amy Irving as Barbara Wakefield, Robert's wife
- Erika Christensen as Caroline Wakefield, Robert's daughter
- Topher Grace as Seth Abrahams, Caroline's boyfriend
- D. W. Moffett as Jeff Sheridan
- James Brolin as General Ralph Landry
- Albert Finney as White House Chief of Staff
- Steven Bauer as Carlos Ayala, Drug Kingpin
- Catherine Zeta-Jones as Helena Ayala, Carlos' wife
- Dennis Quaid as Arnie Metzger
- Clifton Collins, Jr. as Francisco Flores, Obregón Cartel Hitman
- Don Cheadle as DEA Agent Montel Gordon
- Luis Guzmán as DEA Agent Ray Castro
- Miguel Ferrer as Eduardo Ruiz, Drug Distributor
- Peter Riegert as Michael Adler
- Benjamin Bratt as Juan Obregón, Drug Cartel Boss
- Salma Hayek as Rosario (uncredited)
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