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COCAINE COWBOYS

By Billy CORBEN

Documentary - Completed 2006

- Year of production
- 2006
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- USA
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Duration
- 118 mn
- Director(s)
- Billy CORBEN
- Writer(s)
- Billy CORBEN
- Cast
- Griselda BLANCO
- ISAN
- 0000-0002-35A3-0000-N-0000-0000-5
- EIDR
- 10.5240/FD18-EAA7-09E5-0723-AFB9-T
- Producer(s)
- Alfred SPELLMAN, Bruno DEL GRANADO, Daniela MANAS
- 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, was 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.