American Made tells the real life story of one Barry Seal. Barry was a pilot during the late 70's early 80's who gets roped into being a CIA informant. Tasked with taking off the books photos of ...

In the latest chapter of a real-life family feud, the third wife and widow of drug smuggler-turned-government informant Adler “Barry” Seal and the three children she had with him claim they had every ...

Barry Seal was a Baton Rouge-born pilot turned drug smuggler turned government informant. He was barrel-chested and brash. He wasn't even six feet tall and weighed 300 pounds. Basically, Seal looked ...

Barry Seal, a real-life, albeit minor, figure in the Iran-contra scandal, takes center stage in the fact-based yet heavily fictionalized "American Made," with such major figures as Oliver North ...

They're four of the vaguest words in Hollywood, but four of the most frequently used: "based on real events." Sometimes a movie will use their equally vague cousin, "inspired by real events," but the ...

Louisiana's governor has denied the clemency request of a man jailed for plotting the murder of Barry Seal, a drug runner and federal informant who worked to bring down Colombian cocaine lords before ...

Tom Cruise is moving on from his Mummy-fied adventures in 2017, with his next big release, American Made, hitting theaters soon. Considering the film is based on a real person and real events, viewers ...

Seal's wife, Deborah Seal, claimed that her husband first became involved with drug smuggling in 1975, according to The Independent. After some small time smuggles with marijuana, Seal eventually came ...

When Tom Cruise’s Barry Seal crashes a small airplane full of drugs into a suburban house, covering his entire body in cocaine in the process, American Made somehow makes drug smuggling look fun.

Tom Cruise as Barry Seal in the film "American Made." (Courtesy Universal Pictures) An increasingly popular revisionist take on the 1986 blockbuster “Top Gun” posits Tom Cruise’s Pete “Maverick” ...

I have to be honest, the life of Barry Seal is quite interesting. Seal was a former airline pilot whose talents caught the eye of not just the CIA, but the White House and Pablo Escobar. His life was ...