Cocaine Cowboys
2006
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 .. Read more
| Starring | Jon Roberts, Al Sunshine, Sam Burstyn, Mickey Munday |
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| Director | Billy Corben |
| Genres | Documentary |
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Cocaine Cowboys
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 paints a dazzling portrait of a cultural explosion that still echoes as Hollywood myth.
| Starring | Jon Roberts, Al Sunshine, Sam Burstyn, Mickey Munday, Bob Palumbo, Toni Mooney, Edna Buchanan, Joseph Davis, Al Singleton |
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| Director | Billy Corben |
| Studio | CONTENDER ENTERTAINMENT GROUP |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 56 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Documentary |
| Language | English |
| Released | DVD: 04 Feb 2008 Production year: 2006 |
| Format | DVD |
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The Drugs. The Money. The Violence. The Incredible true story that inspired Scarface and Miami Vice hits cinemas this week. The cocaine trade of the 70s and 80s had an indelible... read more »
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9 out of 13 people found this review helpful
No No No
dont waste your time or DVD allocation on this awful doc o rama.
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5 out of 5 people found this review helpful
A Documentary on Speed!
The kind of documentary thats shown on Channel 5 on a Wednesday night this film is not for those of you who like your documentaries well-rounded, incisive and sensible.
It tears through at an amazing speed and doesnt pause for breath as several insiders to the Cocaine trade of the 1980's tell tales or the damn right obsurd.
Enjoyable, but should have been half an hour shorter and without the interview with the braying child killing hitman and endless close up photos of dead people. -
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- 23 Nov 2007
The Drugs. The Money. The Violence. The Incredible true story that inspired Scarface and Miami Vice hits cinemas this week. 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 epicentre of a $20 billion annual business fed by Colombia's Medellin cartel. By the early 80s, Miami's homicide rate had tripled and made it the murder... Read more
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