At least one part of the movie, Cocaine Bear, is actually based on facts. A black bear did die in the Georgia woods of a cocaine overdose in the fall of 1985. In the movie, the bear goes on a cocaine-induced rampage and attacks and kills eight people. In real life, the cocaine the bear ingested killed it in about 45 minutes. So what really happened? It was late fall in the Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest in Georgia near the state's border with Tennessee when the hapless bear stumbled across three duffel bags full of cocaine jettisoned from an overloaded plane ...
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