An oddball group of cops, criminals, tourists and teens converge on a Georgia forest where a huge black bear goes on a murderous rampage after unintentionally ingesting cocaine.An oddball group of cops, criminals, tourists and teens converge on a Georgia forest where a huge black bear goes on a murderous rampage after unintentionally ingesting cocaine.An oddball group of cops, criminals, tourists and teens converge on a Georgia forest where a huge black bear goes on a murderous rampage after unintentionally ingesting cocaine.
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- TriviaRay Liotta's final completed film role before his death on May 26, 2022. Liotta died a week after he came to re-record his lines in post-production. Elizabeth Banks said that Liotta praised the look of the bear once he got a look at it.
- GoofsIn the opening scene, Hanna Hoekstra playing Elsa calls her fiancé "Kristofer" instead of Olaf. Olaf is the character's name, while the actor who plays him is named Kristofer.
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Tom: [as the Cocaine Bear chases them] Shoot it! Shoot it! Damn it, not the tree, the big fucking bear!
Ranger Liz: Shut up!
- Crazy creditsSPOILER: There are two mid-credits scenes. The first one shows Kid escaping the massacre with one of the bags of cocaine and hitching a ride to New York. The second one shows Eddie and Daveed return to Eddie's son with Bob's dog.
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Written by Craig Chaquico, David Freiberg, Paul Kantner, Jim McPherson
Performed by Jefferson Starship
Courtesy of Rhino Entertainment Company
By arrangement with Warner Music Group Film & TV Licensing
Featured review
Better than expected.
I first groaned and rolled my eyes when I heard they made a film about a bear on cocaine, named Cocaine Bear. I Googled the name to look for the trailer, and stumbled on the Wikipedia page where I learned this movie is loosely based on actual events, and that's what sold me to give it a watch. If the fact a bear actually found and did cocaine for months isn't funny enough alone to give this film a watch, I don't know what is.
I'm just glad the filmmakers and producers took the already hilarious true concept, and made a film just as ridiculously funny. It's been a while I've heard an entire theatre burst out in laughter so many times. The entire film was simply put, comedy gold. The story could've been a little tighter in a few of the subplots, but the casting of the various colorful characters and all their performances made up for any of the writing issues.
The 95 min runtime was just right, as was the pacing, and the soundtrack was awesome and spot-on for that era. This truly is one of those rare ridiculous films that actually worked. It's a fun ride start to finish. Final fun fact; the actual taxidermied bear can be found at the Kentucky Fun Mall in Kentucky USA.
I'm just glad the filmmakers and producers took the already hilarious true concept, and made a film just as ridiculously funny. It's been a while I've heard an entire theatre burst out in laughter so many times. The entire film was simply put, comedy gold. The story could've been a little tighter in a few of the subplots, but the casting of the various colorful characters and all their performances made up for any of the writing issues.
The 95 min runtime was just right, as was the pacing, and the soundtrack was awesome and spot-on for that era. This truly is one of those rare ridiculous films that actually worked. It's a fun ride start to finish. Final fun fact; the actual taxidermied bear can be found at the Kentucky Fun Mall in Kentucky USA.
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- Feb 27, 2023
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- Gấu Điên
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- Budget
- $35,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $64,670,240
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $23,260,790
- Feb 26, 2023
- Gross worldwide
- $88,314,672
- Runtime1 hour 35 minutes
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- 2.39 : 1
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