Based on an acclaimed and award-winning British television mini-series, Traffic is a provocative examination of the failure of the war on drugs as seen through several intersecting storylines. The top-name cast includes Michael Douglas as the newly appointed U.S. "Drug Czar," whose own daughter is becoming a heavy user, Benicio Del Toro as a Mexican cop trying to find a small measure of justice in a system where law enforcement officials are as corrupt as the criminals, and Don Cheadle and Luis Guzman as two wise-cracking cops working surveillance on the wife (Catherine Zeta-Jones) of a powerful drug lord. An Academy Award-winner for Best Director, Adapted Screenplay, Supporting Actor (Del Toro), and Editing.                                      Steven Soderbergh---USA---2000---147 mins.