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American Made
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2017 film directed by Doug Liman
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6.9The true story of pilot Barry Seal, who transported contraband for the CIA and the Medellin cartel in the 1980s.
Cast
- Tom Cruise as Barry Seal
- Domhnall Gleeson as Monty 'Schafer'
- Sarah Wright as Lucy Seal
- Jesse Plemons as Sheriff Downing
- Caleb Landry Jones as JB
- Lola Kirke as Judy Downing
Themes
- central intelligence agency (cia)
- drug smuggling
- drug crime
- money laundering
- pilot
- based on true story
- drug cartel
- illegal drugs
- dea agent
- 1980s
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Ratings
IMDb
7.1/10
231,091 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
85%
Metacritic
65/100
- Year
- 2017
- Runtime
- 115 min
- Genres
- Action, Comedy, Crime
- Rated
- R
- Awards
- 3 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Doug Liman
- Written by
- Gary Spinelli
- Produced by
- Brian Grazer Brian Oliver Doug Davison Kim Roth Ray Angelic Tyler Thompson
- Starring
- Tom Cruise Domhnall Gleeson Sarah Wright Olsen Jesse Plemons Caleb Landry Jones
- Cinematography
- César Charlone
- Edited by
- Andrew Mondshein
- Music by
- Christophe Beck
- Production companies
- Cross Creek Pictures Imagine Entertainment Quadrant Pictures Vendian Entertainment
- Distributed by
- Universal Pictures
- Release date
- September 29, 2017 ( 2017-09-29 )
- Running time
- 115 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $50 million
- Box office
- $134.9 million
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
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