<Tr> <Th> Budget </Th> <Td> $80 million </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $58.6 million </Td> </Tr> <P> American Made is a 2017 American biographical crime film directed by Doug Liman, written by Gary Spinelli and starring Tom Cruise . The plot focuses on Barry Seal, a former TWA pilot who became a drug smuggler for the Medellín Cartel in the 1980s . In order to avoid jail time, Seal approached United States government officials and served as an informant for the DEA . The film will be released in the United States on September 29, 2017, and is the first film directed by Liman to be released by Universal Pictures since The Bourne Identity in 2002 . It will be released in 2D and IMAX in select theaters . </P> <P> In the late 1970s, Barry Seal is a pilot for commercial airline TWA . A CIA agent, Monty Schafer, contacts him and asks him to fly clandestine reconnaissance missions for the CIA over South America using a small plane with cameras installed . Seal accepts . </P>

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