re: Cocaine Bear (2023) - Directed by Elizabeth Banks (This can't be a real movie)

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When I owed a dealer money in the 80's, he tried to get me to fly to San Francisco, pick up a kilo, and drive it back in a rental. He said he's pay for the flight & rental, clear my debt ($700), and give me $1000, if I'd do it. I told him no thanks, but was not honest with him about why I wouldn't do it. I told him, I'd seen the chain saw in Scarface, and had watched too many episodes of Miami Vice.

I really was afraid they would have found me like that bear, only in some cheap motel on the way back to Dallas. I'd never bought more than a quarter ounce. There were weekends when I was supposed to be getting it for myself and friends, where I lied to them and said I hadn't hooked up with the guy. No telling what I would have done with a huge amount. I doubt I'd have rated a movie, but an article about it would have made Texas newspapers. It probably happened a few times just that way.

I never did anything but snort it. Stopping that was really hard. I can't imagine trying to stop freebasing or injecting it.

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every sentence of that post got better and better.

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Directed by Elizabeth Banks

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How the hell does she have a directing career? C-list actress who does exclusively bit parts and now she directs movies?

She did marry a producer so that probably explains it.

Sometimes it's a Weinstein, sometimes it's a Handelman, but if you want a career in Hollywood, you do what needs to be done.