Cocaine cowboys is a phenomanal doc*mentary. This stuff is real. What these peole were doing was real! I promise watch it once, and prepare to be captivated.
By Brian'z Babi Gurl. | 4 years ago | 0
- Release Date:October 27th, 2006
- Starring: 20 more cast & crew »
- Meter: 100% 69%
- Director:Billy Corben
- Studio:Magnolia Pictures
- Genre:Documentary
- Official Site:cocainecowboys.com
- Rating:
- Runtime:1 hour 58 minutes
- Box Office:$163,000
- On iTunes:
for $9.99
The cocaine trade of the '70s and '80s had an indelible impact on contemporary Miami. Smugglers and distributors forever changed a once sleepy retirement community into one of the world's most glamorous hot spots, the epicenter of a $20 billion annual business fed by Colombia's Medellin cartel. By the early '80s, Miami's tripled homicide rate had made it the murder capital of the country, for which a Time cover story dubbed the city Paradise Lost.
With Cocaine Cowboys, filmmaker Billy Corben - whose first feature Raw Deal: A Question Of Consent, was a sensation at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival - paints a dazzling portrait of a cultural explosion that still echoes as Hollywood myth, evidenced by the latest manifestation, NBC/Universal's Miami Vice. Composer of the original Miami Vice theme, Jan Hammer, provides the score. More »
With Cocaine Cowboys, filmmaker Billy Corben - whose first feature Raw Deal: A Question Of Consent, was a sensation at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival - paints a dazzling portrait of a cultural explosion that still echoes as Hollywood myth, evidenced by the latest manifestation, NBC/Universal's Miami Vice. Composer of the original Miami Vice theme, Jan Hammer, provides the score. More »
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killahmovie24
MIAMI BABY THATS MY CITY!!
4 years agoby @killahmovie24Flag
The Boondock Saint
wat........the......fuq
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TheBeerman30
A suspenseful look into the cocain trade through the eyes and voices of actual participants...drugs, money, power...great doc*mentary!
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