American Made is a 2017 American biographical crime film directed by Doug Liman, written by Gary Spinelli and starring Tom Cruise, Domhnall Gleeson, Sarah Wright, Alejandro Edda, Mauricio Mejía, Caleb Landry Jones and Jesse Plemons.The plot focuses on Barry Seal, a former TWA pilot who flew missions for the CIA and became a drug smuggler for the Medellín Cartel in the 1980s.In order to avoid jail time, Seal became an informant for the DEA.
The film was first released in Europe on August 23, 2017, and then in the United States on September 29, 2017. It is the first film directed by Liman to be released by Universal Pictures since The Bourne Identity in 2002, and was played in 2D and IMAX in select theaters.It has grossed $121 million worldwide and received generally positive reviews from critics, who praised Cruise's performance.
Directed by - Doug Liman
Produced by - Brian Grazer, Brian Oliver, Tyler Thompson, Doug Davison, Kim Roth
Written by - Gary Spinelli
Starring - Tom Cruise
Music by - Christophe Beck
Cinematography - César Charlone
Edited by - Saar Klein, Andrew Mondshein, Dylan Tichenor
Production company - Cross Creek Pictures, Imagine Entertainment, Quadrant Pictures, Vendian Entertainment, Kylin Pictures
Distributed by - Universal Pictures
Release date - August 23, 2017 (Europe), September 29, 2017 (United States)
Running time - 115 minutes
Country - United States
Language - English
Budget - $50 million
Box office - $121.3 million
Plot
In the late 1970s, Barry Seal, a pilot for commercial airline TWA, is contacted by CIA case officer Monty Schafer. He asks Seal to fly clandestine reconnaissance missions for the CIA over Central America using a small plane with cameras installed.
Later in the 1970s, Schafer asks Seal to start acting as a courier between the CIA and General Noriega in Panama. During a mission, the Medellín Cartel picks Seal up and asks him to fly cocaine on his return flights to the USA. Seal accepts and starts flying the cartel’s cocaine to Louisiana. The CIA turns a blind eye to the drug smuggling, but the DEA tracks Seal down. To avoid the authorities, Schafer moves Seal and his family to a remote town in Arkansas called Mena.
Later, Schafer asks Seal to run guns to the Nicaraguan Contras based in Honduras, Central America. Seal soon realizes that the Contras are not serious about the war and starts trading the guns to the cartel. The CIA set up a Contra training base in Mena and Seal flies the Contras in, but many of them escape as soon as they arrive.
Seal's wife Lucy's freeloading brother JB moves in, needing a job from Seal. Eventually, he starts stealing money from the Seals and is caught by Sheriff Downing with a briefcase full of laundered cash and is arrested. Seal gives him money and a plane ticket to Bora Bora so he can leave. JB demands weekly cash and insults Lucy. Barry tries to chase him but JB's car explodes; it is implied Jorge Ochoa had JB's car rigged with explosives, killing him so that he would not snitch.
Eventually, the CIA shuts the program down and abandons Seal to be arrested by the FBI, DEA and other law enforcement agencies. Seal escapes prosecution by making a deal with the White House, which wants evidence the Sandinistas are drug traffickers. They ask Seal to get photos that tie the Medellín Cartel to the Nicaraguan Sandinistas. Seal manages to get the pictures, but the White House releases them as propaganda against the Sandinistas. Seal is prominently shown in the pictures, which leads to his arrest, and to the cartel plotting revenge.
Seal is convicted but given a light sentence, 1,000 hours community service for the Salvation Army. Eventually, after moving from motel to motel each night, assassins sent by Pablo Escobar and the cartel locate Seal and kill him; the CIA then seizes all the evidence to avoid being implicated in drug smuggling. The CIA subsequently begins the Iran–Contra affair.
Cast
Tom Cruise as Barry Seal
Sarah Wright as Lucy Seal
Domhnall Gleeson as Monty Schafer
Alejandro Edda as Jorge Ochoa
Mauicio Mejia as Pablo Escobar
Jayma Mays as Dana Sibota
Jesse Plemons as Sheriff Downing
Lola Kirke as Judy Downing
Frank Licari as ATF Special Agent Franks
Jed Rees as Louis Finkle
Caleb Landry Jones as JB
Connor Trinneer as George W. Bush
Robert P. Farrior as Oliver North
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