You're bound to get caught up in traffic

Steve Fanning

It may be the only movie to look at the moral issues behind the war on drugs without bias.
Traffic tells the story of the high stakes drug trade between Mexico and the U.S. in three interrelated tales ranging from heartfelt to action-packed.
Traffic was directed by Steven Soderbergh and features actors Micheal Douglas, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Benicio Del Toro.
Douglas plays a Supreme Court Justice whose daughter goes through the stages of addiction while he struggles to fight the war on drugs.
Zeta-Jones is the unknowing wife of a drug baron, played by Steven Bauer, who runs a very lucrative business behind his wife's back.
Del Toros is a Mexican police officer who gets sucked into the plan of the corrupt Mexican president.
This film works so well because of the actors.
The lead roles are backed by incredible performances from Don Cheadle, Luis Guzman and Erika Christensen who connect the three story lines with terrific subplots.
The director filmed the movie by hand which gives it a shaky, realistic feel rarely found in today's digitally enhanced, computer animated movie scene.
This movie tackles issues often looked at as black and white and combines them in a sea of gray showing where the drug war is really being waged, in the individual lives of everyone.
Traffic was nominated for five Golden Globe awards and won two: best screenplay and best supporting actor for Benicio Del Toros' performance.