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- 2006
- R
- Magnolia Pictures
- 1 h 58 m
- 2006
- R
- Magnolia Pictures
- 1 h 58 m
Summary This documentary paints a dazzling portrait of the emergence of cocaine and the accompanying cultural explosion that still echoes as Hollywood myth. (Magnolia Pictures)
Directed By: Billy Corben
- 2006
- R
- Magnolia Pictures
- 1 h 58 m
- 2006
- R
- Magnolia Pictures
- 1 h 58 m
Cocaine Cowboys
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6.8
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Summary This documentary paints a dazzling portrait of the emergence of cocaine and the accompanying cultural explosion that still echoes as Hollywood myth. (Magnolia Pictures)
Directed By: Billy Corben
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 19 Critic Reviews
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47% Positive
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42% Mixed
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11% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 19 Critic Reviews
59
47% Positive
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
42% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
11% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Traveling faster than a fat line of blow snorted from mirror to nose, Cocaine Cowboys is all rush and no crash.
Although the movie doesn't exactly romanticize the period, the film still generates a twinge of pride in viewers who lived in South Florida during that time -- and lived to tell about it.
An exhaustive, exciting and ultimately exhausting history of how that white powder, and the Colombian crime lords who imported it by the hundreds of kilos, transformed the culture and economy of Miami, for good and for ill.
Cocaine is the most aggressively edited film in years: It pounds, it churns, it spurts, it spray-paints.
This is an ugly film, but with an undeniable allure.
Cocaine Cowboys would be a great one-hour television piece. Unfortunately, it's a two-hour long documentary that recalls, in scrupulous, unnecessary detail, the rise and fall of Miami's role as the cocaine capital of America.
There are a couple of grams of interesting stories about Miami's drug traffic in Cocaine Cowboys, but the good stuff is cut with 50 kilos of cinematic baking soda.
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Based on 11 User Ratings
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Production Company
Rakontur
Release Date Oct 27, 2006
Duration 1 h 58 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline The incredible true story that inspired "Scarface" and "Miami Vice".
