What is "Cocaine Bear" about? Take a look at the archives: In 1985, parachuting smuggler Andrew Thornton II fell from the sky and died in Knoxville.

Directed by Elizabeth Banks and starring Keri Russell, 'Cocaine Bear' is streaming on Peacock April 14, 2023. Here's how to watch it online.

'Without visual effects, Cocaine Bear would have been some actor, in a bear suit, probably on cocaine,' Elizabeth Banks said onstage at the 2023 Oscars.

This piece contains spoilers. Bears can be scary, but just imagine how much scarier a bear on cocaine would be. Elizabeth Banks sought to answer the question by directing the recently released ...

"Cocaine Bear" is rated R for for bloody violence and gore, drug content and language throughout. ©Universal/Courtesy Everett Collection Some “woke” viewers complained the new film is ...

Cocaine Bear was an unexpected smash and we talked to the digital marketing executive who made that happen -- with memes!

★★★☆☆ “Cocaine Bear” delivers exactly what one might expect from a film with that title: a bear, cocaine and aimless buckets of gore. A deliciously grisly (no pun intended) action-comedy featuring the ...

While “Cocaine Bear” does not carry the same weight as a Spielberg narrative, it transforms what could be a one-note concept into something wholly itself.

Despite the bear being the main antagonist, the film makes it clear that if it wasn’t for humans dumping cocaine into the woods, none of the events would have happened and no one would have died.

Here's the true story behind 'Cocaine Bear,' the film inspired by a bear who IRL overdosed from cocaine in 1985.

But then the film slows down as it introduces its human characters and converging storylines. “Cocaine Bear” spins its wheels for much of the first half until it gets back to the mayhem.