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Traffik

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Traffik
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5hrs 25min
Genre:
Drama
Release:
1989
Directors:
Alastair Reid, Alastair Reid
Distributor:
Acorn Media
Starring:
Bill Paterson, Julia Ormond, Linda Bassett  ...more
Synopsis: This four-hour, six-episode British miniseries, broadcast on Channel 4 in 1989 and in America on PBS's Masterpiece Theatre in 1990, provided the basis for Traffic, Steven Soderbergh's 2000 Oscar winner. Though Soderbergh and screenwriter Stephen Gaghan borrowed much of their plot and structure from the original, Traffik focuses on the European drug trade instead of the American one and utilizes England, Germany, and Pakistan as its major settings. One of the three primary plot strands involves Jack ... Full Synopsis
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Brian J. Dillard, AMG Review
Though it's less stylish than Steven Soderbergh's big-screen version, the original miniseries Traffik displays more nuance and detail than the shorter, star-laden Oscar-winning remake. Writer Simon Moore's expansive script takes in more layers of the drug trade -- from the journalists who cover it and the dirt-poor farmers whose labor powers it to the street dealers who are far more prevalent than ... Full Review
Featured Cast
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Bill Paterson
Jack Lithgow
Julia Ormond
Caroline Lithgow
Linda Bassett
Rachel
Lindsay Duncan
Helen Rosshalde
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