The Two Escobars (Blu-ray)

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Blu-ray Details

  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 44 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: November 9, 2010
  • Originally Released: 2010
  • Label: Team Marketing

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Entertainment Reviews:

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 582
Rating: B+ -- A chilling cautionary tale about what can happen when success becomes a drug ... once you're hooked, the only thing that matters is maintaining the high at any cost. Full Review
IFC.com
Dec 21, 2010
The film makes a persuasive broader indictment, tracing the social and political moving parts that connected soccer, gangsterism, and money. Full Review
PopMatters
Nov 2, 2010
Rating: 2.5/4 -- The company behind The Two Escobars is ESPN Films, and the influence, coincidentally or not, is tangible. Full Review
Slant Magazine
Oct 18, 2010
Pic pulses with the same rhythmic mastery achieved in the filmmakers' earlier Favela Rising. Full Review
Variety
Nov 2, 2010
The Two Escobars ends up being quite the nail-biter. Full Review
Village Voice
Oct 12, 2010
Jeff and Michael Zimbalist's documentary about a nation strapped under the boots of crime and outside forces above the law is just about as exciting as they come and it is gunning, er, shooting for my Top Ten of 2010 List. Full Review
UR Chicago Magazine
Nov 5, 2010
Rating: 3/5 -- Luridly compelling. Full Review
Boxoffice Magazine
Oct 19, 2010

Product Description:

Andrés Escobar was one of Colombia's best and most respected athletes, a gifted soccer player whose strong character made him a role model and who led his team to a spot in the World Cup in 1994. Pablo Escobar was not related to Andrés, but they came to know each other well -- Pablo owned the team Andrés played for, and bankrolled the recruiting drive that helped make them one of the world's best. But while Andrés was seen as a hero, Pablo made his money as a large-scale drug trafficker, and he got involved in professional soccer because he loved the game but also needed to launder his ill-gotten fortune into a legitimate business. Pablo created an image for himself as a Colombian Robin Hood, opening clinics, creating low-cost housing, and building soccer fields for the poor, but he and his henchmen were willing to use violence to achieve their ends, and when Andrés fumbled an important game during the 1994 World Cup games, he learned a painful lesson about loyalty among Escobar's underlings. Filmmakers Jeff Zimbalist and Michael Zimbalist share the remarkable true story of two very different men whose love of a game brought them to good and bad ends in the documentary THE TWO ESCOBARS. THE TWO ESCOBARS received its world premiere at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival.

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  • UPC: 825452506760
  • Shipping Weight: 0.17/lbs (approx)
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