The story of Barry Seal, an American pilot who became a drug-runner for the CIA in the 1980s in a clandestine operation that would be exposed as the Iran-Contra Affair.The story of Barry Seal, an American pilot who became a drug-runner for the CIA in the 1980s in a clandestine operation that would be exposed as the Iran-Contra Affair.The story of Barry Seal, an American pilot who became a drug-runner for the CIA in the 1980s in a clandestine operation that would be exposed as the Iran-Contra Affair.
- Awards
- 3 nominations
Fredy Yate
- Carlos Lehder
- (as Fredy Yate Escobar)
- Director
- Writer
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaTom Cruise is a qualified pilot. He did all of his own flying scenes during filming.
- GoofsBarry Seal did not quit his job at TWA. In July of 1972 he was fired for taking fraudulent medical leave in order to participate in an explosives smuggling operation.
- Quotes
Barry Seal: I'm the gringo who always delivers.
- Crazy creditsAt the very end of the credits, tucked among the copyright disclaimers is the sentence, "And yes, we know that's not El Salvador." This is a reference to a joke in the film about mistaking El Salvador for Nicaragua on the map. In fact, the country on the map was neither El Salvador nor Nicaragua, it was Honduras.
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Featured review
TomCruise at his best
A great story perfectly representing those years and with a stunning performance by Tom Cruise. I would say one of the best movie ever, in this genre, which is midway between a CIA based film and a biopic one. Barry's narration, delivered direct to camera, takes the form of a series of clips from a fuzzy home video supposedly shot in the mid-1980s, laying out the historical background in a dense fashion (he pretends at one point to confuse two countries) which seems most directly indebted to Adam McKay's The Big Short. The biggest coup is the casting of Cruise, who functions as a pure icon, recycling all his usual mannerisms – the grin, the hand gestures – and even revisiting his past as a pilot in Top Gun. The catch is that his depthless showboating for once seems intended as anything but likable.
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- antoniotierno
- Sep 2, 2017
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- Also known as
- Mena
- Filming locations
- Ball Ground, Georgia, USA(Mena, Arkansas)
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Box office
- Budget
- $50,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $51,342,000
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $16,776,390
- Oct 1, 2017
- Gross worldwide
- $134,866,593
- Runtime1 hour 55 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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