Cocaine Cowboys
DVD Released (Y/M/D): 2007-01-23Genre: Documentary
Director: Billy Corben
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MPAA Rating: R
Synopsis: 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, caused 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. Source: Magnolia Pictures
With COCAINE COWBOYS, filmmaker Billy Corben - whose first feature Raw Deal: A Question Of Consent, caused 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. Source: Magnolia Pictures
