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American Made (2017)

American Made poster
Directed by
Doug Liman
Genre
comedy film, action film, crime film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 55m
Rated
R
Rating
6.9 of 10 from 5,032 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A commercial airline pilot gets recruited by the CIA and ends up smuggling drugs for a Colombian cartel. He becomes an informant for the DEA to avoid prison.

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What happens

American Made is a 2017 American action comedy 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. It is inspired by the life of Barry Seal, a former TWA pilot who became a drug smuggler for the Medellín Cartel in the 1980s and then, to avoid jail time, became an informant for the DEA. The film was first released in Taiwan on August 18, 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 played in 2D and IMAX in select theaters. It grossed $134 million worldwide and received generally positive reviews from critics, who praised Cruise's performance. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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