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The aha! moment when you know you’re watching an Oscar-quality documentary strikes in the opening frames of Cocaine Cowboys. At the very least, there’s no confusing this rear look at Miami’s drug vice with its 1979 namesake, an atrocious comedy about a coke-running rock band. Which isn’t to say the current work’s main talking head doesn’t have something of Destn (the bad flick’s rock star wannabe) in him: Jon Pernell Roberts went from zilch to zillionaire vibing with Columbian drug lords.

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