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." With Cocaine Cowboys, filmmaker Billy Corben whose first feature Raw Deal: A Question Of Consent, caused a sensation at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival paints a dazzling portrait of a cultural explosion that still echoes as Hollywood myth, evidenced by the latest manifestation, NBC/Universal's Miami Vice. Composer of the original Miami Vice theme, Jan Hammer, provides the score.
Product Identifiers
UPC
9322225052727
eBay Product ID (ePID)
15051095932
Product Key Features
Actor
Bob Palumbo, Jon Roberts, Al Sunshine, Sam Burstyn, Mickey Munday
Director
Billy Corben
Studio
Madman
Format
DVD
Release Year
2006
Language
English
Movie/TV Title
COCAINE Cowboys
Type
Dvd
Run Time
118 Mins
Genre
Special Interest
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs
1
Rating
Ma
Distributor
Madman Entertainment
Tag Line
The Real Story That Inspired Scarface and Miami Vice