American Made

When hotshot TWA pilot Barry Seal (Tom Cruise), who has a wife (Sarah Wright) and kids in Louisiana, is recruited by CIA agent Monty Schafer (Domhnall Gleeson) in 1978 to be an independent aviation consultant and initially to fly dangerous, covert, reconnaissance missions in South America to take valuable surveillance photographs in this entertaining, factually inspired, action-packed, well-paced, unbelievable, ire-producing, star-dotted (Caleb Landry Jones, Jesse Plemons, and Jayma Mays), 117-minute film, he ends up becoming a drug courier for General Manuel Noriega (Alberto Ospino) in Panama and swimming in money after running kilo after kilo of cocaine into the U. S. for Pablo Escobar (Mauricio Mejía) and the Medellín Cartel, delivering arms to the Contras and then smuggling Contra rebels to his 2,000-acre property in Arkansas so that they can train in camps set up the CIA, and eventually coming to the attention of the FBI, DEA, and ATF for his illegal smuggling shenanigans and then to avoid incarceration, he accepts the White House deal to fly again to South America to take photographs of drug kingpins in an effort to tie the drug traffickers to the Sandinistas.
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