<P> 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 . </P> <P> 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 against a budget of $50 million, and received generally positive reviews from critics, who praised Cruise's performance . </P> <P> In 1978, Baton Rouge pilot Barry Seal, who flies commercial jets for TWA, is recruited by a CIA case officer calling himself Monty Schafer . He asks Seal, who has been smuggling Cuban cigars into the country via Canada, to fly clandestine reconnaissance missions for the CIA over Central America using a small plane with cameras installed . At first Seal's wife Lucy thinks he's still with TWA, but eventually she is excited by the wealth generated by his "new company". </P> <P> Later in the 1980s, 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 United States . 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 the remote town of Mena, Arkansas . </P>

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