'The Legend Of Cocaine Island' Trailer: Netflix Doc Follows A Florida Man's Search For A Buried Stash Of Cocaine

At last year’s Tribeca Film Festival, the documentary titled “White Tide” caught our attention. The filmmaking, combined with the incredible story, created one of the most fun docs that we saw in any film festival in 2018. And as with most documentaries nowadays, Netflix went ahead and snatched it up and gave it a new title “The Legend of Cocaine Island.”

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And as you can see in the new trailer for the doc, which premieres later this month, this film is a “southern fairy tale,” which is very different than what you’re probably used to. ‘Cocaine Island’ tells the story of Rodney Hyden, a Florida man that is in dire straits after the Great Recession destroyed his financial security. And as you do, Hyden decides the best course of action is to go on the search for buried treasure. In this case, the man isn’t looking for gold or money. No, he’s on the hunt for a $2 million stash of cocaine.

Netflix is set to release “The Legend of Cocaine Island” on March 29.

Here’s the synopsis:

An urban legend about a $2 million stash of cocaine buried in the Caribbean leads a band of misfits to hatch a screwball plan to find it in this comedic documentary.

Rodney Hyden is an American dreamer: a small business owner and family man from Central Florida. But after he’s wiped out by the Great Recession, Rodney hears a story that could be his ticket out of his mounting debt: a tale of a map, an island and buried treasure. Fueled by a combination of economic desperation and blissful ignorance, Rodney hatches a plan to retrieve a possibly mythical $2 million stash of cocaine from its reported Caribbean hiding place. With the help of a colorful group of misfits-and without prior drug-running experience-Rodney sets out in pursuit of his very own American dream, with surprising results.