10 Ridiculous Movie Controversies That Went Nowhere

10. It's Barely Based On A True Story - Cocaine Bear

Any movie that purports to be "based on true events" will naturally be scrutinised to death, though in the case of Cocaine Bear audiences should've probably been wise enough to cut the filmmakers some slack.

Indeed, it shouldn't surprise many that Elizabeth Banks' new dark comedy is an extremely loose interpretation of true events - a revelation which evidently still shocked and even disappointed some.

While it's true that an American black bear ingested cocaine dropped by drug smugglers in Tennessee in 1985, the rest of the tale is totally fabricated. In reality, the bear overdosed on the estimated 75g of coke it consumed and soon enough died.

There's no evidence to suggest that the bear killed anyone before it perished, and so from the moment the bear gets high onwards, the movie is a result of pure creative license.

And there's nothing wrong with that at all - if Banks had simply stuck to the facts, it wouldn't be much of a film at all, and certainly not one that remotely lived up to the deranged implications of its title.