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Hugh Jackman, Cocaine Bear, What’s Love Got To Do With It, The Independent, Broker

Kermode & Mayo’s Take

CHAPTER

The True Story of Cocaine Bear

Cocaine bear is the new film by Elizabeth Banks, who directed Pitch Perfect II with the Charlie's Angels reboot. It is billed as based on a true story, okay? The true story of cocaine bear is this. December 1985, a huge bear was found dead in the Chattahoochee National Forest after having ingested a duffle bag full of drugs that had been dropped out of a Cessna Light airplane. A police officer turned drug smuggler subsequently bailed out and was then found dead on a driveway in Knoxville wearing a Kevlar bulletproof vest,. Gucci loafers and weighed down by a huge amount of drugs which he himself had jumped out of his parachute hadn't opened

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