Director:
Martin DonovanWriter:
Alex LaskerCountry:
USALanguage:
English
Sarah Pillsbury and Midge Sanford,
the producing team responsible for the theatrical-movie "sleeper" The
River's Edge, were the mentors of the made-for-TV Seeds of Tragedy.
Filmed in semi-documentary fashion, the story involves a single cache of
cocaine, from creation to consumption. The coca leaves are initially
harvested by poor farmers in the Peruvian Andes. The coca moves forward
to a small-time Amazon trader; then it is powdered under the supervision
of a Colombian gangster, and finally it winds up on the mean streets of
LA. Partially filmed in Mexico with a cast of relative unknowns, Seeds
of Tragedy was an unusually potent entry in the Fox Network's "Monday
Night Movie" series.
