<Tr> <Th> Budget </Th> <Td> $48 million </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $207.5 million </Td> </Tr> <P> Traffic is a 2000 American crime drama film directed by Steven Soderbergh and written by Stephen Gaghan . It explores the illegal drug trade from a number of perspectives: users, enforcers, politicians, and traffickers . Their stories are edited together throughout the film, although some of the characters do not meet each other . The film is an adaptation of the 1989 British Channel 4 television series Traffik . </P> <P> 20th 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 . 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 . USA Films, however, liked the project from the start and offered the filmmakers more money than Fox . Soderbergh operated the camera himself and adopted a distinctive color grade for each story so that audiences could tell them apart . </P>

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