Sari in Cocaine Bear (2023)
Amazingly, Cocaine Bear is very loosely based on the true story of a a 175-pound black bear who happened upon a lot of cocaine in Georgia in December 1985.
And yes, the cocaine really did end up in the woods thanks to Andrew Carter Thornton II, a former paratrooper, a police officer, and lawyer who jumped our of a Cessna 404 with about 77 pounds of cocaine strapped to his body.
In Cocaine Bear, Matthew Rhys briefly plays Thornton, and his wife and Americans co-star, Keri Russell, plays the heroic Sari (above), a nurse who tries to save her daughter Dee Dee from the drug-addled bear.
But Sari, as you may have guessed, is not a real person. Pretty much everything in the movie is made up after the high-flying intro.
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