<Tr> <Th> Budget </Th> <Td> $53 million </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $83.3 million </Td> </Tr> <P> Blow is a 2001 American biographical crime film about the American cocaine smuggler George Jung, directed by Ted Demme . David McKenna and Nick Cassavetes adapted Bruce Porter's 1993 book Blow: How a Small Town Boy Made $100 Million with the Medellín Cocaine Cartel and Lost It All for the screenplay . It is based on the real - life stories of George Jung, Pablo Escobar, Carlos Lehder Rivas (portrayed in the film as Diego Delgado), and the Medellín Cartel . The film's title comes from a slang term for cocaine . </P> <P> Blow was the final theatrical film directed by Demme to be released in his lifetime . </P>

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