Cocaine Cowboys

Miami-based producer/director team Alfred Spellman and Billy Corben's cheeky documentary charts the decade-long blizzard of cocaine money that financed their hometown's transformation from a sleepy, slightly down-at-the-heels tourist town into a glamorous hotspot and fueled a competition between drug dealers that left the streets littered with bloody bodies. It opens on July 11, 1979, when two men armed with submachine guns opened fire inside a Dadeland Mall liquor store. They left behind two bullet-riddled corpses, a van packed with heavy artillery and a nickname — "cocaine cowboys." The story of the Miami drug wars has been told before, in movies like SCARFACE (198...