Driven 2018

     This is an intense thriller with a collision between politics, big business and narcotics.  It is supposedly based on real events that became the celebrity scandal of its generation!!  The time period is the early 1980’s in California.  Jim Hoffman has been busted for smuggling coke on his plane.  He has a chance to start over in a rich and affluent suburb of San Diego.  Jim and his wife Ellen are surprised to find maverick auto mogul John DeLorean in the neighborhood!!  He lives in a glamorous house down the street.  An unexpected friendship forms between the two men.  John’s new venture, the DeLorean Motor Company is just taking off.  The FBI is pushing Jim to inform on his flashy former dealer and friend Morgan Hetrick.  John’s financing is falling through the cracks!!  The circumstances are not ideal and it is about to take a dark turn.
     On the bad side there is drinking and swearing almost constantly??  I not sure people actually swore so much in this time period??  There is an instance of drug use with snorting a few lines of coke laced with angel dust.  There also is a drug deal going wrong and the destruction of careers by cocaine possession, use and intent to distribute.  I am not sure about the accuracy of anything portrayed in this film? 
    
113 min, Bio directed by Nick Hamm, driven by Colin Bateman with Jason Sudeikis, Lee Pace, Judy Greer, Isabel Arraiza, Michael Cudlitz, Erin Moriarty, Jamey Sheridan, Iddo Goldberg, Tara Summers, Justin Bartha, Corey Stoll, Daniel Salinas Gonzalez, Yuji Okumoto, Tyler Crumley, Asher Miles Fallica.

Note:  Imdb 6.3 out of 10 with 3,268 views, Rotten Tomatoes 621% with 50 critics 70% audience with 111 ratings, Roger Ebert 2 1/2* Nell Minow, Metacritc 55 out of 100 with 11 critics(3* positive 8* mixed) 6.2 out of 10 with 5 ratings (2* positive 3* negative), Common Sense Media Tara McNamara, age 15+, 1* violence, 4* sex, 4* language 2* consumerism.

Special Note:  Filmed in Puerto Rico.  The first DeLorean sticker price was $25,000.  Actor Lee Pace managed to find an original DeLorean car in Italy.  He wanted to show it at the Venice Film Festival.  It broke down and had to be pushed onto the red carpet for the publicity photos!!  Lee Pace is wearing a silver wig as John DeLorean and that takes some getting used to!!!  There is also a documentary film Framing John DeLorean of 2019.  This film may have more of the truth since it features archival footage.

Comments from the DeLorean family and historians:  The film has been criticized as being wildly inaccurate?  Supposedly, there never was a friendship between Delorean and Jim Hoffman.  The character Katy Connnors is said to be a fictional person created for the film?  The DMC-12 automobile used in the film was provided by the Puerto Rico DeLorean club.  The Club has since expressed regret for loaning the car for the production.  The Club was disappointed by the negative story line of DeLorean and the car history.