Contraband
What would you hide to protect your family?
When his brother-in-law runs afoul of a drug lord, family man Chris Farraday turns to a skill he abandoned long ago—smuggling—to repay the debt.But the job goes wrong, and Farraday finds himself wanted by cops, crooks and killers alike.
- Director
- Baltasar Kormákur
- Worldwide
- $96M
Who's in it
Cast
The billed ensemble, with character names. Open any performer for their Nutevio filmography.
Story overview
What It's About
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When his brother-in-law runs afoul of a drug lord, family man Chris Farraday turns to a skill he abandoned long ago—smuggling—to repay the debt. But the job goes wrong, and Farraday finds himself wanted by cops, crooks and killers alike.
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The numbers
Box Office & Release
Contraband returned 3.9× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $25M
- Opening weekend
- —
- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $96M
- Release date
- Jan 12, 2012
- Runtime
- 1h 49m
- MPAA rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- Iceland, United States of America
Figures from the verified production record. Fields we cannot source are left blank rather than estimated.
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