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Cocaine Cowboys

  • 20062006
  • RR
  • 1h 58m
IMDb RATING
7.8/10
13K
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Cocaine Cowboys (2006)
  • Documentary
  • Crime
  • History
The story of how Miami became the cocaine capital of the United States in the early 1980's and the police officers who turned the tide on crime.The story of how Miami became the cocaine capital of the United States in the early 1980's and the police officers who turned the tide on crime.The story of how Miami became the cocaine capital of the United States in the early 1980's and the police officers who turned the tide on crime.
IMDb RATING
7.8/10
13K
YOUR RATING
  • Director
    • Billy Corben
  • Stars
    • Jon Roberts
    • Al Sunshine
    • Sam Burstyn
Top credits
  • Director
    • Billy Corben
  • Stars
    • Jon Roberts
    • Al Sunshine
    • Sam Burstyn
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 30User reviews
    • 52Critic reviews
    • 59Metascore
  • See production, box office & company info
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    Yancey Arias, Billy Corben, Zilah Mendoza, and Aurin Squire in Cocaine Cowboys (2006)

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    Jon Roberts
    • Selfas Self
    Al Sunshine
    • Selfas Self
    Sam Burstyn
    • Self - Criminal Defense Attorneyas Self - Criminal Defense Attorney
    Mickey Munday
    • Selfas Self…
    Bob Palumbo
    • Self - Special Agent, Drug Enforcement Administrationas Self - Special Agent, Drug Enforcement Administration
    • (as Bob Palombo)
    Toni Mooney
    • Self - Jon Robert's Ex-Girlfriendas Self - Jon Robert's Ex-Girlfriend
    Edna Buchanan
    • Self - Former Crime Reporter, Miami Heraldas Self - Former Crime Reporter, Miami Herald
    Joseph Davis
    • Self - Former Chief Medical Examiner, Miami-Dade Countyas Self - Former Chief Medical Examiner, Miami-Dade County
    • (as Dr. Joseph Davis)
    Al Singleton
    • Self - Homicide Detective, Miami-Dade Police Departmentas Self - Homicide Detective, Miami-Dade Police Department
    Louis Caruso
    • Self - Criminal Defense Attorneyas Self - Criminal Defense Attorney
    • (as Louis Casuso)
    Raul Diaz
    • Self - Former Narcotics Detective, Miami-Dade Police Departmentas Self - Former Narcotics Detective, Miami-Dade Police Department
    Jorge Ayala
    • Self - Enforceras Self - Enforcer
    • (as Jorge 'Rivi' Ayala)
    Nelson Andreu
    • Self - Retired Homicide Detective, Miami Police Departmentas Self - Retired Homicide Detective, Miami Police Department
    Conrad Gomez
    • Assassinas Assassin
    Kelly Hughes
    • Radio Room Girlas Radio Room Girl
    Alfred Spellman
    Alfred Spellman
    • Chucho Castroas Chucho Castro
    Monica Rooker
    • Grizel Lorenzoas Grizel Lorenzo
    Jenna Reeves
    • Girl in Oceanas Girl in Ocean
    • Director
      • Billy Corben
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    Storyline

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    • Trivia
      Blanco was killed by two gunmen on a motorcycle as she walked out of a butcher shop in her hometown, Medellín, on September 3, 2012. The Miami Herald cites El Colombiano newspaper reports that one man fired two bullets into her head, executing her in the type of "motorcycle assassination" she has been credited with inventing.
    • Quotes

      Jon Roberts: Roberts returned to Florida as a condition of his parole.

    • Connections
      Features Scarface (1983)

    User reviews30

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    Top review
    8/10
    Miami's real vice
    Life was good in Miami in the 70s. You could blow into town with $500 dollars in your pocket, and the next things you know, you are burying millions in your bag yard, driving the hottest cars, have two or three cigarette boats, a string of race horse, and land all the way up to horse country in Marion County. You didn't think twice about dropping $20,000 on food and drink because you had so much. The Miami skyline was booming with two dozen construction cranes operating, cars were selling like hotcakes, and there was no trace of the recession that was occurring elsewhere in the US.

    But, then came the 80s and there were 100,000 illegal Colombians in Miami and Castro had just flushed Cuba's toilet and dumped his criminals into the city in the Mariel boat lift. War began between the drug dealers on these two sides, and it came to the attention of Reagan and Bush that there was a problem in Miami that affected the whole country.

    Long before I got attracted to Carl Hiaasen's fiction, I was reading his columns from the Miami Herald. Forget Scarface, this was the real thing. Shootouts with shotguns and automatic weapons on the streets in broad daylight. Miami had become Dodge City and Chicago during Prohibition to the tenth power.

    This is the story of those two decades in Miami and the results today - a booming international city built on cocaine. The truth really is more exciting than what you see on Miami Vice.
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    • Jun 28, 2008

    Details

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    • Release date
      • November 23, 2007 (United Kingdom)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Official sites
      • Official Facebook
      • Official Site
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Кокаиновые ковбои
    • Filming locations
      • Miami, Florida, USA
    • Production company
      • Rakontur
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    Box office

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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $150,056
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $36,295
      • Oct 29, 2006
    • Gross worldwide
      • $167,078
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 58 minutes
    • Color
      • Color

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