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Feb 24, 2023 · An oddball group of cops, criminals, tourists and teens converge on a Georgia forest where a huge black bear goes on a murderous rampage after unintentionally ingesting cocaine.
Plot. In 1985, drug smuggler Andrew C. Thornton II drops a shipment of cocaine from his plane. He attempts to parachute out with a drug-filled duffel bag, but knocks himself unconscious on the doorframe, causing him to fall to his death.
Aug 28, 2023 · The deaths in Cocaine Bear, caused by the lethal combination of a bear and cocaine, provide shocking and memorable moments throughout the film. Not only the bear is responsible for the deaths, as other characters meet their demise in unexpected and gruesome ways, adding to the mayhem of the story.
Dec 1, 2022 · “Cocaine Bear” stars Keri Russell, O’Shea Jackson Jr. and Ray Liotta, who died in May, in one of his final film roles. It depicts the bear’s drug-induced trail of terror and the victims he...
Dec 3, 2022 · In the film, the bear goes on a cocaine-fueled killing spree after its drug binge. In real life, the story has a less sensational ending: The bear was found dead in Chattahoochee National...
Feb 22, 2023 · But unlike the movie version, the coked-up creature never killed anybody: Its remains were found after dying of an overdose – surrounded by 40 open containers with traces of cocaine in them.
Mar 13, 2023 · The film was based on a 1985 incident involving a 200-pound American black bear that was found dead from an overdose in a Georgia forest. The strange discovery was front-page news, and...
Feb 24, 2023 · Banks’ film, scripted by Jimmy Warden, is inspired by the 1985 discovery of a dead bear in Georgia’s Chattahoochee National Forest. The true story behind “Cocaine Bear” started in September...
Feb 24, 2023 · The parachutist, a former Kentucky narcotics investigator, had fallen to his death in a backyard in Knoxville, Tennessee. His unmanned airplane crashed into a North Carolina mountain. Back in Georgia, the bear, examiners said, had overdosed. The story is in many ways too much. Too absurd. Too ’80s.
Recently, NBC’s Gadi Schwartz broke down how the movie’s plot loosely drew from 1985 reports of an American black bear that overdosed on a duffel bag full of cocaine. Check out the background...
