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...Crimson's rally was cut short when the Quaker offense took advantage of Harvard's defensive slips. Marabella's pass found Hartman unguarded in the eight-meter fan, and she bounced a shot past Guyer. Sophomore Whitney Horton added the final blow with a high left shot off of a weak-side crease roll to bring the final score...
...small-time pot dealer on Manhattan Beach, but his dreams are bigger, and he flies into Mexico to the source of the marijuana. The good times roll—with the profits from dealing, Jung and Barbara buy a house in Acalpulco—and this first half of Blow is almost Edenic: everyone is friends with everyone else, money is plentiful but doesn’t engender greed, people take dips in sun-kissed swimming pools...
...scene. Ray Liotta gives a performance of grace as Fred Jung, George’s father, a man who doesn’t necessarily approve of his son’s choice of careers but understands. There’s also lots of smart things to like about Blow. The soundtrack (including Cream’s “Strange Brew,” featuring Eric Clapton in his cocaine years, and the Rolling Stones’ “Can’t You Hear Me Knocking”) is clever enough to fuel the movie without overpowering...
...deal (there’s a great scene where George and Diego are raking in so much money they begin judging the amount of cash they have by weighing boxes of hundred-dollar bills). But that’s too pat an answer, and for a biographical movie Blow gives us little insight into its lead...
...while Blow is strong enough to ward off those aforementioned cheap-shot headlines, and while its captivating depiction of the life of George Jung is a welcome corrective from caricatured stereotypes of drug smugglers, the whole of the movie comes across as less than the sum of its occasionally brilliant parts. The movie keeps flitting from location to location, chasing the next high (or low) of Jung’s life, never stopping to fully take in what it all means...