Paul,
Wrong Demme. This was directed by Ted Demme, who is quite a bit younger than Jonathon (about 20 years, I'd guess); I know they're related in some way, although I can't remember how. They seem to have similar sensibilities (both seem drawn to performance films), but Jonathon seems to...
The Slate.com article really shows how with some truth, this could have been a really good movie. This wasn't just a case of changing some detail to make it more dramatically interesting, this was almost a canonization of a drug smuggler (Watch the interview footage of the real George Jung and...