Traffic

Don Cheadle, Benicio del Toro and Michael Douglas star in this crime drama directed by Steven Soderbergh. In San Diego, undercover DEA agents Montel Gordon (Cheadle) and Ray Castro (Luis Guzmán) work to bring drug baron Carlos Ayala (Steven Bauer) to justice. Across the border in Mexico, police officer Javier Rodriguez (Benicio Del Toro) joins the National Drug Force, a special unit commanded by General Salazar (Tomas Milian) which is charged with bringing down the local Obregon drug cartel. Ayala's wife Helena (Catherine Zeta-Jones) travels to Tijuana to meet Obregon representatives and strikes a deal intended to save her husband's life. Meanwhile, Rodriguez begins to suspect that the task force has undeclared connections to the supposedly defunct Juarez cartel, the major rivals of the Obregons, and Salazar meets with US judge Robert Wakefield (Michael Douglas), a man whose dedication to his work blinds him to the fact that his own daughter is struggling with drug addiction. The cast also includes Dennis Quaid, Albert Finney and James Brolin.