After Netflix and other networks’ success with drug trade related TV series, the audiences get another fascinating and violent drug lord movie on Lifetime based on the true story of Griselda Blanco or ‘The Black Widow’. Cocaine Godmother movie on Lifetime follows Griselds from Columbia to her flourishing drug trade in the US and her eventual assassination.
Cocaine Godmother Movie Cast
David McKenna writes Cocaine Godmother: The Griselda Blanco Story directed by Guillermo Navarro. The movie’s lead cast includes Catherine Zeta Jones as Griselda.
Cocaine Godmother: The Griselda Blanco Story (2018)
Directed By: Guillermo Navarro
Cast: Catherine Zeta-Jones, Carlos Rodriguez, Matteo Stefan, Spencer Borgeson, Jose Julian, Juan Pablo Espinosa, Raul Mendez, Jenny Pellicer, Alejandro Edda, Jonah Stark, Jaden Rain, Dagan Nish, Lauren Guci, Warren Christie and Darcy Laurie
Network: Lifetime Channel
Air Date: January 20 2018, 8 PM ET/PT
Cocaine Godmother Movie Plot
In her lifetime, Griselda’s drug distribution network spanned across the United States and she was suspected of ordering over 200 murders. Cocaine Godmother movie follows Griselda from the age of 17, when she made her way to the U.S. with a fake passport with her first husband Carlos (Carlos Rodriguez).
Living in Queens with her three sons (Dixon, Matteo Stefan; Osvaldo, Spencer Borgeson; Uber, Jose Julian), Griselda became enticed by the money the drug world offered, and quickly became embroiled with local drug runners. Griselda masterminded the use of beautiful women, the elderly and children as the mules and created false-bottom suitcases to smuggle cocaine from Colombia.
With money rolling in, her sons abandoned school and entered the family business instead. A move to Miami would further expand Griselda’s empire, and lead to the death of her second husband Alberto (Juan Pablo Espinosa), giving the rise to her nickname, The Black Widow.
Her willingness to use violence against her Miami competitors, led her rivals to make repeated unsuccessful attempts to kill her. In order to protect her youngest son with third husband Dario (Raul Mendez), Griselda moved to California where she was later arrested by the DEA and sentenced to a decade in jail.
The case against her collapsed and upon her release, she was deported to Colombia, where she was ultimately gunned down in 2012.
Cocaine Godmother Movie Trailer
Watch this intense trailer of Cocaine Godmother movie on Lifetime and get ready for a thrilling movie night.
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