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DVD Features:
4:3 Letterbox Presentation
Deleted Scenes
Interview with the Queen of Cocaine (Griselda Blanco)
Interview with Griselda’s former lover Charles Crosby

Cocaine Cowboys - a film by Billy Corben

THE INCREDIBLE TRUE STORY THAT INSPIRED SCARFACE AND MIAMI VICE!

“Such a buzz to watch!  Kinetic and absorbing, the doc equivalent of Goodfellas”
- THE ONION


“The ‘Godmother’…makes Tony Montana (Scarface) look like Mother Theresa”
- ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY

“A hyperventilating account of the blood-drenched Miami drug culture…overflowing with cops, coroners and smugglers”
- NEW YORK TIMES
 
“Move Over ‘Miami Vice’ and ‘Scarface’ – This is how it really happened! Exhilarating!”
- SOUTH FLORIDA SUN-SENTINEL

“Tremendously entertaining! Action-packed, with rapid–fire editing and colorful characters who tell riveting stories.”
- NEW YORK 1 NEWS

“An exhaustive and exciting history of how that white powder transformed Miami.”
- SALON

“Makes Tony Soprano look like a girlieman!... more thrilling - and authentically terrifying - than anything from Miami Vice.”
- VERY SHORT LIST.COM

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, which a TIME cover story dubbed the city “Paradise Lost.”

 

2006, USA, 116 min.