Tom Cruise's 'American Made' Nixed Scene With Bill Clinton Getting Lap Dance

Hollywood Reporter ^ | 9/29/2017 | Tatiana Siegel

[mairdie]

The film draws from a conspiracy theory that implicates both Clinton and George H.W. Bush in a massive operation that involved cocaine smuggling, money laundering and illegal arms exporting.

American Made, opening today, was poised to be the rare movie that could unite those on either side of the political divide. After all, it's based on the one conspiracy theory that implicates both Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush in a massive operation that involved cocaine smuggling, money laundering and illegal arms exporting.

But those hoping for some Clinton dirt will ultimately be disappointed. The filmmakers decided to cut a scene showing a young Clinton getting a lap dance at an Arkansas strip club. In the script, it's the moment when the movie's real-life protagonist Barry Seal, played by Tom Cruise, hatches an idea to enlist Clinton, who was then governor of Arkansas, in the CIA-backed scheme. ... The Doug Liman-helmed film's original title, Mena, also was changed to American Made in an effort to downplay the Arkansas connections. "Mena" references the name of the town in Arkansas that contained a clandestine airfield used to smuggle guns and drugs back-and-forth to Latin America, during Clinton’s watch as governor. ...

[drewh]

ill bet ol bubba got more than a lap dance!

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I’m guessing this is based on the book “Clinton, Bush and the CIA” by Terry Reed.

[Vendome]

That is a true story...

[Don W]

Isn’t this just an updated version of “Air America”?

[Fiddlstix]

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[gaijin]

Kudos to you, everything you said was 101% true.

It is completely infuriating that people think the details of Barry Seale’s life were conspiracy theory.

Everyone in the world was the Clinton family was and is today dirty as he’ll, but sorry, I put the Bush family right in there with them.

I despise Hollywood that I am going to see this movie.

[caligatrux]

This is not a conspiracy theory

Pretty much exactly what I was going to say.

There is very, very little in the story of Barry Seal that is "conspiracy theory." There is some braggadocio that Seal himself cultivated, but he was neck deep in some serious government criminal enterprise.

[GT Vander]

I own a vacation home in Mena, Arkansas. Interesting stories told there.

[mairdie]

Waiting.... Interesting stories always loved.

[Albion Wilde]

dont think it is shame, really... they hide their crimes because they dont want to go to prison. period

And that's why they stay married, even though it is a sham of a sham; so they can't be compelled to testify against each other.

[outinyellowdogcountry]

Are you CIA that you know these things that are not publicly known?