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High-concept movies often have the most to lose, because if your plot can be described in a succinct sentence, then you had better deliver on it as you've got nothing else to fall back on., which, if you have avoided the trailers over the past few months, is really about a bear on cocaine. Who just happens to go on a coke-fuelled rampage in a Georgia forest.
It's loosely inspired by a true story, one with a tragic ending as the bear obviously overdosed when it happened upon a duffel bag filled with 70lb of cocaine. It's not really a spoiler to say that doesn't happen here as writer Jimmy Warden has refashioned the tale into an outrageous horror comedy.Cocaine Bearto be – and also genuinely one of the best movies of the year to date.
Yes, it's hard to be totally serious with the concept, but the characters are reacting to the situation they're in rather than making gags about it. There's also time spent on developing the characters so that you care about them, whether it's the mother searching for her daughter or the son trying to break free from his drug-kingpin father.
It's an oddball group of characters, but it works due to a talented cast featuring the likes of Alden Ehrenreich,
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