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American Made (2017)

★ 6.9 · 4,958 ratings on TMDB

It's not a felony if you're doing it for the good guys.

American Made poster★ 6.9

The true story of pilot Barry Seal, who transported contraband for the CIA and the Medellin cartel in the 1980s.

DirectorDoug Liman
CastAlejandro Edda, Benito Martinez, Caleb Landry Jones, Domhnall Gleeson, E. Roger Mitchell, Jayma Mays
GenresComedy, Crime, Drama
The emergence reading

American Made keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same rung, same subject

Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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