As the poet once said, cocaine is a hell of a drug. It’s known mostly for being very expensive and making you think all of your bad ideas are actually super good, so it’s no surprise that it’s wildly popular in Hollywood.
It was especially popular in the ‘70s and ‘80s, before all those politicians and D.A.R.E. officers started showing up to kill everyone’s buzz.
23 Movies Brought to You Mostly By Cocaine
Redditor Walmartmaster recently learned just how popular. “I was talking with my dad, and we talked about how great Caddyshack was and how Harold Ramis spoke on the amount of cocaine consumed during production, as well as during Meatballs with Bill Murray,” movies/comments/1bnj7c5/movies_with_a_ton_of_cocaine_consumed_during/”>they told r/Movies.
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“It got me and my dad wondering how many late ‘70s and ‘80s comedies can be attributed to cocaine usage? we’ve compiled a list as of as many as we can find that have evidence of cocaine usage during production.
Can you think of any others?
The best of that list is below…
23 The Blues Brothers
22 Street Fighter
21 The Last Waltz
20 Blazing Saddles
19 Days of Thunder
18 Runaway Train
17 No Holds Barred
16 A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
15 Twins
14 The Crow
13 Apocalypse Now
12 Heat
11 Popeye
10 1941
9 Maximum Overdrive
8 The Rock
7 Natural Born Killers
6 Blow
5 Cobra
4 Showgirls
3 Where the Buffalo Roam
2 Howard the Duck
1 The Empire Strikes Back –
The biggest movie blockbuster bought to you with an unheralded usage of cocaine.
