“A half-hour into ‘Cocaine Bear,’ everyone, person and bear alike, has become a drag,” writes Tribune critic phillipstribune.
O'Shea Jackson, Jr., from left, Alden Ehrenreich, Ayoola Smart and Ray Liotta in a scene from"Cocaine Bear," directed by Elizabeth Banks.
“Cocaine Bear” is a nice title, certainly, and Universal put together a promisingly berserk trailer. The story springs from actual life, as briefly lived by an actual bear who, in 1985, discovered 88 pounds of cocaine dropped from a smuggler’s small plane into the Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest in Georgia.Two deaths resulted from that incident. The smuggler died after his parachute malfunctioned and he landed in someone’s driveway in Knoxville, Tennessee.
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