Barry Seal was a commercial pilot who became a drug smuggler, then a DEA informant who found himself at the center of the Iran-Contra scandal. In Doug Liman’s American Made, Tom Cruise plays the Mena-based cocaine cowboy as a spiritual successor to Top Gun’s Maverick. Our Dan Lybarger has the review.
In other movie action, Philip Martin takes a look at the polarizing Mother! while Piers Marchant talks to Little Rock-born director David Gordon Green about his latest film, Stronger, and previews this week’s New York Film Festival. And Karen Martin sorts through recent DVD offerings.
All in Friday’s Style section in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.