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trailer - 6.89 MBCocaine Cowboys (18)
- Consumer Advice: Contains real images of strong bloody violence
- Run time: 1 hour 58 mins
- Genre: Documentary
- Release date: 23rd November 2007
- Starring: Jon Roberts, Al Sunshine, Sam Burstyn
- Directed by: Billy Corben
- Official Website: www.cocainecowboys.co.uk
- Distributor: Slingshot
Plot 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.”
COCAINE COWBOYS goes on a fast-paced, adrenaline fuelled journey inside the world of the South Florida drug trade and its henchmen known as “Cocaine Cowboys”. The film explores the business of how cocaine was imported and distributed, the insanely copious amounts of money being made and its impact on the city’s economy, and the violence that consumed the city during this era.