Traffic was released in the United States on Decemand received critical acclaim for Soderbergh's direction, the film's style, complexity, messages, and the performances of the cast (particularly del Toro's). Soderbergh operated the camera himself and adopted a distinctive color grade for each storyline so that audiences could tell them apart. USA Films, however, liked the project from the start and offered the filmmakers more money than Fox. Soderbergh refused and proposed the script to other major Hollywood studios, but it was rejected because of the three-hour running time and the subject matter- Traffic is more of a political film than most Hollywood productions. It features both English and Spanish-language dialogue.Ģ0th Century Fox, the original financiers of the film, demanded that Harrison Ford play a leading role and that significant changes to the screenplay be made. The film stars an international ensemble cast, including Don Cheadle, Benicio del Toro, Michael Douglas, Erika Christensen, Luis Guzmán, Dennis Quaid, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Jacob Vargas, Tomas Milian, Topher Grace, James Brolin, Steven Bauer, and Benjamin Bratt. The film is an adaptation of the 1989 British Channel 4 television series Traffik. Their stories are edited together throughout the film, although some of the characters do not meet each other. It explores the illegal drug trade from a number of perspectives: users, enforcers, politicians, and traffickers.

Traffic is a 2000 American crime drama film directed by Steven Soderbergh and written by Stephen Gaghan.

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