<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>
who is the movie blow based off of
George Jung Pablo Escobar Carlos Lehder Rivas the Medellín Cartel