Let’s be clear, Elizabeth Banks’ Cocaine Bear is likely to be dumb as shit.

And sure it’s based on an actual event, but like most movies that make that claim it’s likely to neglect the more pertinent details of the story, which is that four-legged animals can overdose – and die – just as easily as two-legged ones because that’s exactly what happened: the bear, while it did ingest cocaine – that part is true – harmed no one unlike what appears to be going on in the movie, overdosed, likely dying soon afterward.

But we’re talking about a movie here, so it goes without saying that what we see on screen will be lucky to approach even a pale imitation of the reality, which is probably a lot less interesting than the movie will be.