Prime Video movie of the day: Cocaine Bear is the best film about a bear on cocaine you'll watch today (2024)

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Is the Cocaine Bear movie worth watching? ›

Despite Cocaine Bear's half-baked plot and uneven acting, the titular fur fiend's scene-snorting frenzy will give B-movie enthusiasts a contact high. Cocaine Bear does pretty much exactly what it sets out to do, and if you're in the mood for some silly horror-comedy, that'll be more than enough to satisfy.

The film takes significant liberties—while the events which occurred between the bear's ingestion of cocaine and its death are not known, the bear is not known to have caused any deaths, as was portrayed by the film. The film was released on February 24, 2023.

Inspired by the true story of a drug runner's plane crash, lost cocaine and the bear that ate it. This wild comedy shows an apex predator on a rampage for blow—and blood.

A documentary titled Cocaine Bear: The True Story is now streaming on Peaco*ck, recounting the true story of a former narcotics investigator-turned-drug runner Andrew Thornton whose ill-fated 1985 smuggling attempt led to the cocaine-induced death of a bear in northern Georgia and his untimely death outside of a ...

Aside from the movie being painfully boring, the movie is also needlessly gorey. Granted, the movie is R-rated, but at times the gore makes the movie unfun to watch. The film's main antagonist dies when he is disemboweled and two cocaine-addicted bear cubs eat his intestines.

Cocaine Bear was released in the United States on February 24, 2023, by Universal Pictures. The film opened to generally positive reviews from critics and grossed over $90 million against a production budget of $30–35 million.

It's very mature: Expect strong drug content, incessant swearing ("f--k," "s--t," "ass," "motherf----r," and much more), and relentlessly gory violence. The bear mauls and dismembers people, and there are explicit images of several severed limbs, as well as a decapitated head.

Cocaine Bear, a horror movie starring Keri Russell, Margo Martindale, and Ray Liotta is available to stream now. Watch it on Prime Video, ROW8, Fandango at Home or Apple TV on your Roku device.

Chaos and carnage ensue when a 500-pound black bear discovers — and devours — a discarded shipment of illegal narcotics in a national forest. Starring:Keri Russell, Alden Ehrenreich, O'Shea Jackson Jr. Watch all you want.

Two months after the smuggler's death, a Georgia hunter found a dead bear surrounded by the remains of a duffel bag investigators would later deem to be Thornton's. A medical examiner concluded the 200-pound bear had died of acute cocaine intoxication after ingesting about three to four grams of cocaine.

Where was Cocaine Bear filmed? ›

Directed by Elizabeth Banks, Cocaine Bear was shot largely in County Wicklow, Ireland. Perhaps surprisingly, the filmmakers discovered that the landscapes of Wicklow closely resembled the Georgia mountain wilderness. Ireland also offered many of the settings required by the story in close proximity to each other.

While no follow-up movie is officially in the works yet, both Banks and producer Phil Lord have hinted that they're open to making another movie in the vein of "Cocaine Bear." Here's everything we know so far.

The movie didn't take itself too seriously, but the undeveloped characters did not serve the already lackluster plot. Parents should know there are a lot of f bombs and some gore, but the gore isn't too bad, being used in a humorous context.

Cocaine Bear is rated R as it absolutely should be.

Cocaine Bear, a comedy movie starring Keri Russell, Margo Martindale, and Ray Liotta is available to stream now. Watch it on Prime Video, ROW8, Fandango at Home or Apple TV on your Roku device.

But as you should have guessed from the 15 rating, this movie ain't no Paddington. In fact, the Brown family's lodger would give co*key a hard stare for its murderous behaviour. But during the Cocaine Bear rampage, you'll be enjoying yourself too much to keep count of the mangled heads, clawed torsos and shredded limbs.