“[A] great, despairing squall of a film...may be the first Hollywood movie since Robert Altman's Nashville to infuse epic cinematic form with jittery new rhythms and a fresh, acid- washed palette”

- Stephen Holden

“[F]eels a little like seeing a version of The Insider that thought it politic to waffle on whether cigarettes were a danger to your health”

- Kenneth Turan

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Michael Douglas plays a U.S. Drug Czar who can't control his own daughter's addiction much less make headway in the war on drugs. Catherine Zeta-Jones, Benicio Del Toro, Don Cheadle, Luis Guzman, Steven Bauer, Miguel Ferrer, Amy Irving, Dennis Quaid, Jacob Vargas, Albert Finney. Director: Steven Soderbergh (2000, R)