In 2014, director Doug Liman and Starvala Tom Cruise brought us what became known as The best movie for cruise science in "Edge of Tomorrow". Three years later, the director and the acting couple again referred to a completely different project, which, although not remembered as one of Cruz's best films, is easily one of the fun of the actors.

The American Made saw the pilot looking for an exciting cruise, Barry Pell, who, after working for Trans World Airlines (Twa), was recruited by the CIA in the late 1970s to fly reconnaissance over Central America. Soon, Seal finds himself working for Madeleine Cartel, who asks the pilot to smuggle drugs back to the United States on his return flights, making the former commercial pilot very rich. Meanwhile, he is starting to work with guns at Nicaraguan Contras, but he was careful all the time, and the sealing quickly finds himself in the persecution of several agencies, eventually being arrested by the FBI, DEA, ATF and Arkansas's state police after the CIA left. In order to avoid imprisonment, the pilot makes an agreement to become an informant and secretly receives evidence connecting the Medellin cartel with Nicaragua Sandinistas. However, when the incriminating photographs he catches, he is prosecuted by the State Prosecutor and the cartel stands for retaliation. Things end up in a tragic but inevitable way when the press is killed by the cartel assassin after his sentence of 1,000 hours of community service.

If that sounds like a crazy story, it may surprise you to learn it's true. That is, it is based on Adler Beriman Pel's true story, with writer Gary Spinelli taking on some pretty freedoms in retelling the pilot's life. That said, the story of Seal's real life is just like no more exciting than the film.

Doug Liman talked to /movie For the "American did", noting that the time in which Barry Pell operated was unprecedented in so many ways. "It's an extraordinary time in American history," the director said, "and extraordinary time only in terms of ... This was a moment when pilots could be cowboys. That era ended. The type of freedom the pilots had in the 1980s, just ended." "The American made" was one way to pay tribute to such a unique time in American history, but it was incorrect, with Liman himself referring to the film as a "fun lie based on a true story". For one thing, the real stamp was "cowboy" throughout the decade ago, which is just one of the many aspects of the story of the real life that has changed for the film.

Despite the cover card "Based on Real Events", writer Gary Spinelli gave herself a lot of creative freedom when making the script - though The "American made" scene, introduced Bill Clinton, who gets a lap dancewhose verification is not in question. Adler Beriman Pel was really a Twa pilot. He began working for the company as a flying engineer in the 1960s before becoming one of the youngest pilots in the company's history. By 1975 he smuggled small quantities of marijuana, but graduated from cocaine until 1978, which was more profitable. However, until that point, he lost his work with Twa for his involvement in conspiracy to smuggle explosives outside the United States and flew the counter -airline in his native Louisiana.

In the film, we see that Seal is developing links with the Medellin cartel after flying a reconnaissance for the CIA, but was actually colleague pilot William Roger Rieves who first hooked the press with the cartel. Pell then recruited help in the form of his former mother -in -law William Kotles, who began flying drugs in and out of the United States in 1981, the press and his operation began transporting cocaine to the Medellin cartel, earning as much as $ 500,000 per flight. Just like in the film, Seal will pack the drug packages in remote parts of Louisiana, after which his associates will return the packages and transfer them to Florida where the cartel ties are waiting. At the height of his operation, Seal was running a dozen planes to smuggle drugs in the United States.

In the "American made", Barry's press of Tom Cruise moves to the small town of Men, Arkansas, which is somewhat based. In 1980 From 1981-85, it is said that Seal used Mena Airport as the center for his drug trafficking business, although there were opposing reports on exactly what the airport was used, with some claiming there were no drugs that had actually passed through the airport. However, a joint investigation by the FBI, the State Police in Arkansas and the IRS seemingly confirmed that Seal actually used Mena Airport for "smuggling" between 1980 and 1984.

In March 1983 The press then reduced a contract with the government in 1984 and began working as a DEA newsletter. The agency wanted to expose Nicaragwan Sandinista's regime as a major supplier of cocaine from Colombia. In the film, we see Seal recruited by the CIA agent of Domhel Gleeson, Monty Schaefer, in the late 1970s, to fly missions for CIA reconstruction. In reality, Pell is said to have planes reshuffled from Mena Airport only after 1984, and could even help transport weapons to arm Nicaragua's counterparts.

In his role as a DEA newsletter, Pell continued to fly his trafficking tracks, but did so on an aircraft equipped with surveillance equipment. During his travels, the pilot could take photos of soldiers in Nicaragua, members of the Sandinista government, and even the Cuban authorities covering his plane his cocaine bags. The press is even said to have made a shot at Pablo Escobar.

Unfortunately for the press, the press was found in the story and exposed the entire operation. Of course, the Madeleine cartel did not take their drug trafficker as an American informator ("American made" is definitely It's worth seeing if you're a fan of Sikario). In February 1986 Three Colombians were eventually convicted of the murder.