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Del Toro is still the stand out here and has the most interesting plot line to follow.
The plot with Michael Douglas’ character as the drug czar whose daughter becomes a drug addict is pretty standard stuff for a movie but has a couple of excellent points to make. The daughter Caroline makes one of them in a rehab meeting that it’s easier for kids her age to obtain drugs instead of alcohol. Later her friend Seth takes Caroline’s father to task over the racial dynamics of selling and buying and how different if it’s reversed. At the end Douglas’s character decides he needs to listen more. The third plot is the least interesting for me but Don Cheadle as always is superb. The film is as many point out is rather dated but it does show the mindset of many at the time while many still carry that mindset others have shifted tactics beliefs on the subject of drugs. Still Requiem of A Dream is a better deterrent and focused better on the ones addicted.
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