Sort of. The movie is heavily inspired by the real-life case of Leo Sharp, a World War II veteran and renowned daylily breeder who became the world’s oldest drug mule. By the time the DEA caught him in 2011, he was eighty-seven years old and had been running cocaine for a Mexican cartel for over a decade.
You read that right: a man who grew beautiful flowers in Michigan started hauling bricks of cocaine worth millions. It’s like finding out your grandpa has a secret second life as a ninja—except with more plastic-wrapped drugs and fewer throwing stars.
