Tom Cruise’s American Made Continues our Fascination With American Outlaws

In his comeback to quality cinema, Tom Cruise stars in American Made, about real-life TWA pilot turned drug smuggler Barry Seal. The Universal Pictures film from director Doug Liman opens September 29th, likely timed as Oscar bait, thereby following in a grand tradition of well-made American maverick biopics featuring subjects whose high-flying lives ultimately can’t outlast the effects of their misbegotten fortunes coming home to roost.

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Watch the First Trailer For Tom Cruise’s Drug Caper American Made

The dyanmic duo of Tom Cruise and director Doug Liman, who teamed up to make the critically accalimed Edge of Tomorrow,  are back at it in Universal Pictures’ American Made, based on the very real international escapade of a hustler and pilot (Cruise) who is unexpectedly recruited by the CIA to run one of the biggest covert operations in U.S. history, and nearly topples the Reagan administration in the process.