Contraband 🎥 2012 Movie Info

Plot Summary

In New Orleans, Chris Farraday, a reformed smuggler, enjoys a quiet family life with his wife, Kate, and their two children. Their tranquility is shattered when they discover Kate’s brother, Andy, has become entangled in drug smuggling. To make matters worse, Andy panicked during a U.S. Customs and Border Protection inspection and dumped his illicit cargo into the Mississippi River. Andy’s boss, Tim Briggs threatens to kill Chris’s family if Andy does not reimburse him for the drugs. Chris plans to smuggle $10 million in fake bills from Panama into the U.S. in a van.

He asks former partner Sebastian Abney, who owns a construction business, to fund the scheme before joining the crew of a cargo ship with Andy and partners Danny and Davis. After Briggs breaks into Chris’s house and intimidates Kate and their children, they move into Sebastian’s house for safety. In Panama, Chris creates a diversion on the ship so he, Andy, and Danny can leave and retrieve the fake bills. Chris and Danny eventually go to meet an unstable crime lord named Gonzalo for the fakes, leaving Andy in the van with their money. Briggs calls Andy, threatening to kill one of Chris’s sons if Andy doesn’t go to another address to buy cocaine with the money.

With Andy and the money gone, Chris agrees to help Gonzalo rob an armored car in exchange for the fake bills. Gonzalo and his men are killed during the heist, but Chris and Danny escape with the van, the fake bills, and the Jackson Pollock painting Gonzalo was trying to steal, loading it all onto the cargo ship. Meanwhile, it’s revealed that Sebastian is in debt to gangster Jim Church and was secretly working with Briggs. Sebastian hears that Chris plans to dump the cocaine and tells Briggs to threaten Kate in order to stop Chris from doing so.

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