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Cocaine Bear (2023)

Keri Russell and Ray Liotta Will Fight a Drug-Fueled Grizzly in Elizabeth Banks' upcoming thriller Cocaine Bear.

Cocaine Bear
Cocaine Bear
Thriller

Release Date
February 24, 2023
Director
Elizabeth Banks
Main Genre
Thriller
Studio
Brownstone Productions, Lord Miller, Universal Pictures
Writers
Jimmy Warden

Summary

based on an untitled spec written by Jimmy Warden. It is inspired by true events that took place in Kentucky in 1985, when a 175-pound black bear had consumed the contents of a duffle bag dropped from a drug smuggler’s airplane containing around 70 pounds of cocaine. In that case, the bear was later found dead of an overdose without harming anyone, but as {Cocaine Bear} is a thriller, that may not be the case in the movie.

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