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Cocaine Bear isn't entirely fictional. Here's the real story behind 'Pablo Eskobear'

Cocaine Bear's premise is pretty self-explanatory, but it's actually based on true events. So what really happened in a Georgia forest in the 1980s?

ABC News · Feb 24, 2023

Cocaine Bear doesn't even elicit a snort

Besides one action sequence and a fake bear that out-acts its human costars, the film fails its amusing title

Salon · Feb 24, 2023

Review: The enjoyably grisly 'Cocaine Bear' is nothing to sniff at

In September 1985, Tennessee authorities discovered the body of Andrew Carter Thornton II, a former narcotics officer turned drug smuggler who had fallen to his death from a plane. The bags full of cocaine he was transporting into the country took longer to recover. By the time the illicit cargo…

Los Angeles Times · Feb 24, 2023