
In the 1980s, ruthless Colombian cocaine barons invaded Miami with a brand of violence unseen in this country since Prohibition-era Chicago - and it put the city on the map. "Cocaine Cowboys" is the true story of how Miami became the drug, murder and cash capital of the United States, told by the people who made it all happen.... (Full plot summary below)
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In the 1980s, ruthless Colombian cocaine barons invaded Miami with a brand of violence unseen in this country since Prohibition-era Chicago - and it put the city on the map. "Cocaine Cowboys" is the true story of how Miami became the drug, murder and cash capital of the United States, told by the people who made it all happen.
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| Cinema SignalsJules BrennerInformative documentary filmmaking that belongs as much on library shelves and agency case files as in your local theatre. |
| Film ThreatK.J. DoughtonTraveling faster than a fat line of blow snorted from mirror to nose, Cocaine Cowboys is all rush and no crash. |
| New York Daily NewsJack MathewsIf "The Godfather" movies were based on real gangsters and some of them were still around to talk about the good old days, they might be as fascinating as the characters in Billy Corben's documentary about the cocaine import business in 1970s Miami. |
| San Diego Union-TribuneDavid ElliottIt's watchable, but like gorging on every rotten issue of the old Confidential magazine. |
| The A.V. ClubNoel MurrayUltimately, Cocaine Cowboys' lesson isn't that crime doesn't pay, but that it maybe pays too well. |
| TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghCocaine cash financed Miami's renaissance, but the film never downplays the human cost at which that urban renewal was purchased. |
| Miami HeraldRene RodriguezAlthough the movie doesn't exactly romanticize the period, the film still generates a twinge of pride in viewers who lived in South Florida during that time -- and lived to tell about it. |
| Film4Ned BeaumanAt nearly two hours, Cocaine Cowboys (appropriately) doesn't know when to stop talking, but as a chronicle of a demented epoch, it's both entertaining and just about definitive. |
| ColeSmithey.comCole SmitheyDocumentarian Billy Corben's revealing film exposes the methods and players in South Florida's drug trade that literally built the city of Miami that we know today with billions of dollars in blood cash. |
| IGN MoviesStaxThrough its use of archival news footage and contemporary interviews, Cocaine Cowboys proves to be an intoxicating exploration of Miami, the '80s cocaine trade and those who saw it all happen. |