Cocaine Cowboys

Name: Cocaine Cowboys
Genre: Crime, Documentary
Released: October 27, 2006
Duration: 118 min
Rating: 59

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Magnolia Pictures | Release Date: October 27, 2006 | R

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)

Director: Billy Corben

Genre(s): Crime, Documentary

Rating: R

Runtime: 118 min

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K.J. Doughton

Traveling faster than a fat line of blow snorted from mirror to nose, Cocaine Cowboys is all rush and no crash. Read full review

Noel Murray

Ultimately, Cocaine Cowboys' lesson isn't that crime doesn't pay, but that it maybe pays too well. Read full review

Rene Rodriguez

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. Read full review

Stephen Hunter

Cocaine is the most aggressively edited film in years: It pounds, it churns, it spurts, it spray-paints. Read full review

Luke Y. Thompson

The story is fascinating, if a little overlong. Read full review

Jessica Reaves

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. Read full review

Kyle Smith

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. Read full review

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DianeH.

Nov 29, 2006

I just had moved to Tampa, FL, in 1977. I found this documentary fascinating AND appropriately adrenalin raising. This look at the drug cultures' dollars rebuild of Miami was such an 'of course' but i'd not realized the massive dimensions of it all. Right under our I just had moved to Tampa, FL, in 1977. I found this documentary fascinating AND appropriately adrenalin raising. This look at the drug cultures' dollars rebuild of Miami was such an 'of course' but i'd not realized the massive dimensions of it all. Right under our noses. And then Hollywood moved in. Now there's some kind of a cultural statement in that.… Expand

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Enrique

Dec 21, 2006

An excellent documentary. Its strong statements makes it a hard to take movie for general audiences. A must see!

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