The story is based on a drug smuggling plane that crashed in a northern Georgia town, just south of the Tennessee border in 1985. The plane was piloted by convicted drug dealer, Andrew Thornton who died in the wreck. Several hundred pounds of cocaine were lost in one of Georgia's state parks, and it's proven a bear tore into 40 different containers of that cocaine. (New York Times) The rest is screenplay writer, Jimmy Warden's imagination.
The police are aware of the lost nose coke, and the duel conflict between the law and the crazed criminal trying to find and retrieve the devil's dandruff gels well with the mother searching for her adolescence aged daughter in the woods where a wired-out bear roams.
This movie is a farce with heart and insanity with laughter.
Mark Izzy Schurr
