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By Joanne Hilty
Rappahannock News Writer
“Traffic,” a complex, compelling hrisemble drama about the morass that is the drug problem in this country today, plays at The Theatre bn Gay Street in Washington on Friday, May 4 at 8 p.m.
Working at the top of his game and with a superior cast, director Steven Soderbergh (“Erin Brockovich”) vividly presents several distinct but interconnected stories.
The first story is photographed in tobacco-stain brown, the second with blue filters, the third in bright sunshine-all by Soderbergh himself, who puts the camera on his phoulder and throws us into the middle of the action. Individually, the scenes play with superb toughness, and the over-all impression is one of high intelligence and great good humor threading its way through a morass.
There’s Michael Douglas, a conservative judge just appointed the nation’s drug czar, who learns the 'hard way that fighting drugs begins at home when his daughter (Erika Christensen) turns out to be a heroin addict; a wealthy Southern California matron (Catherine Zeta-Jones) who discovers upon his arrest that her businessman husband (Steven Bauer) is really a drug dealer; a Mexican policeman (Benicio Del Toro, Academy Award winner for Best Supporting Actor in this role) who tries to find a way out of the corruption surrounding him; and two dedicated Drug Enforcement Administration officers (Don Cheadle and Luis Guzman) attempting to nail Bauer.
The movie is based on a 1989 British TV miniseries known as “Traffik,"written by Simon Moore, which used the same multi-layered
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