Cocaine Bear

In 1985 a drug smuggler dumped cocaine from a plane over Georgia and later died in the fall; a black bear found some of it and died. That is the true part. The film imagines what would have happened if the bear had lived and kept going.

Elizabeth Banks directed a gory comedy that is exactly what the title promises: an apex predator on stimulants working through a state park full of hikers, gangsters, park rangers and children.

It knows precisely what it is, plays the kills for slapstick, and never pretends to be anything other than a premise stretched to feature length.

Ray Liotta is in it, in one of his last roles.

It is not scary and not trying to be. It is a one-joke film that commits to the joke, and the ambulance sequence is the highlight.