The real story is less bloody. In December 1985, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation announced that a 175-pound black bear had “died of an overdose of cocaine after discovering a batch of the ...

Elizabeth Banks' Cocaine Bear is now streaming on Peacock ... Back in September 1985, convicted drug smuggler Andrew Thornton was found dead in a driveway in Knoxville, Tennessee.

Inspired by the 1985 true story of a drug runner's plane crash, missing cocaine, and the black bear that ate it, this wild dark comedy finds an oddball group of cops, criminals, tourists and teens ...