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“American Made,” a film account of the story of Barry Seal, a pilot and drug runner recruited by the CIA who ran operations out of the Mena airport, is heading to theaters, finally, in September. A trailer was released this week.

The movie was originally titled “Mena.” It was filmed in Georgia, Louisiana and Colombia.

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Tom Cruise stars. A resemblance between him and Seal, who was assassinated in Louisiana in 1986 and was known as The Fat Man? Nil.

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Max Brantley
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