Inspired by the 1985 true story of a drug runner’s plane crash, missing cocaine, and the black bear that ate it, this wild dark comedy finds an oddball group of cops, criminals, tourists and teens converging in a Georgia forest
Where a 500-pound apex predator has ingested a staggering amount of cocaine and gone on a coke-fueled rampage for more blow and blood.
Starring Keri Russell, O’Shea Jackson, Jr., Christian Convery-Jennings, Alden Ehrenreich, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Brooklynn Prince, Isiah Whitlock Jr. Kristofer Hivju
Directed by Elizabeth Banks from a screenplay by Jimmy Warden,
Produced by Oscar winners Phil Lord and Christopher Miller.
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There are plenty of other characters Cocaine Bear’s dramatis personae verge on the Altmanian but we’re not really here for the characters.
We’re here for the bear and the cocaine, and the film doesn’t skimp on that front either.
We first see the beast chasing down and shredding a hiking tourist couple before it suddenly gets distracted by a butterfly.
The film’s greatest set piece involves a slapstick chase featuring a stretcher, an ambulance with its back doors open, a gun, and a sprinting emergency-aid worker, and it’s fair to wish that Cocaine Bear had more scenes like this.
Sometimes the bear sneaks up on our characters like a grim woodland menace. Sometimes it’s wildly energetic.
