This high-octane thriller about a cocaine addicted bear thrives on absurdity.
dropped two months ago; it predictably went viral based on its single, outlandish premise: “A BEAR DID COCAINE!” screams one character. Premiering nationwide tomorrow,that feels like a much-needed shot of adrenaline. It’s too campy and self-deprecating to be an indelible work of cinema, but that’s not the point: It’s original, and it’s a very good time.
Here’s the plot: It’s 1985 and a drug runner dumps bags of cocaine off a plane into the woods in Georgia; a 500-pound bear finds it, consumes a terrifying amount of drugs, immediately develops an addiction, and goes on a murderous rampage in search of its next hit. An innocent young girl and her friend find themselves in the bear’s path, and their only hope is that her mom , who goes out searching for her, finds them before Cocaine Bear does.
Directed by Elizabeth Banks and written by Jimmy Warden, this high-octane, predator–prey thriller thrives on absurdity. You squeal every time the bear does more cocaine — recharging its bloodlust — and comes across another measly human who quickly realizes that they’re screwed. They scream, they run, they climb, they drive away from Cocaine Bear. It’s a thrill, and it gets your heart racing.
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