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. Composer of the original “Miami Vice” theme, Jan Hammer, provides the score.
What Miami’s residents are saying about the “Cocaine Cowboys” phenomenon….(click thumbnail to watch interview)
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1 s // Mar 28, 2008 at 9:41 pm
cocaine cowboys is a gerat documentary (hope i spelled that correctly) .i bought the movie thinking it would be something like “blow” or “kings of south beach” but i was pleasently suprised. being 21, i hear stories all the time about miami in the 80’s but this really brings history to life. so pack your sniffer full of nose candy, sit back crack open a cold one, and enjoy the movies folks…… lol
2 **Suck Uh Nigga Dick Or Sumthin** // May 6, 2008 at 11:52 am
Whoo Deee Whoo.. yu all no diz shit off da whiz all yuzzur wactch diz shitz bout million times..
3 alex mejia // Jul 30, 2008 at 3:31 am
i need 2 contact mike blanco am a friend of his from medellin we use 2 play american football there with the clika he will rememder i lve in miami can u help me get in contact with my old friend got some good stories 2 tell my cell is 786 355 0765
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