Cocaine Cowboys
A FILM BY Billy Corben
A FILM BY Billy Corben
A hyperventilating account of the blood-drenched Miami drug culture overflowing with cops, coroners and smugglers.
-The New York Times
An exhaustive and exciting history of how that white powder transformed Miami.
-Salon
Makes Tony Soprano look like a girlieman! ... more thrilling - and authentically terrifying - than anything from Miami Vice.
-Very Short List.com
Move Over Miami Vice and Scarface. This is how it really happened! Exhilarating!
-South Florida SunSententiel
Such a buzz to watch! Kinetic and absorbing, the doc equivalent of Goodfellas.
-The Onion AV Club
The Godmother [Griselda Blanco] makes Tony Montana look like Mother Theresa.
-Entertainment Weekly
Tremendously entertaining! Action-packed, with rapid fire editing and colorful characters who tell riveting stories.
-New York 1 News
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, which a TIME cover story dubbed the city "Paradise Lost."Theatrical Release Date
Original Languages: English
Genre: Documentary, Crime, History
Running Time: 116 min.
Year: 2006
Genre: Documentary, Crime, History
Running Time: 116 min.
Year: 2006
CREDITS
CAST
Jon Roberts
Al Sunshine
Sam Burnstyn
DIRECTED BY
Billy Corben
PHOTOS
Billy Corben, director of COCAINE COWBOYS
A scene from COCAINE COWBOYS
Griselda Blanco in COCAINE COWBOYS
Jorge Rivi Ayala in COCAINE COWBOYS
A scene from COCAINE COWBOYS
Mickey Munday in COCAINE COWBOYS
A scene from COCAINE COWBOYS
Jon Roberts in COCAINE COWBOYS
