Blow

Blow (2001) chronicles the rise and fall of George Jung (Johnny Depp), a Massachusetts boy from a struggling family who navigates the counterculture of the 1960s. After a stint dealing marijuana in California, Jung turns to cocaine smuggling, amassing a fortune that crumbles under the weight of his own ambition and the law's relentless pursuit. Director Ted Demme's biopic offers a gritty, no-frills account of a man's descent from the fringes of legality to the clutches of federal incarceration, rendered with Depp's characteristic charisma and a sense of fatalistic inevitability.