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Contraband

2012 109 min English R

“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.

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Cast

69 people

Baltasar Kormákur Director · Aaron Guzikowski Screenplay

Worldwide gross $96M · Budget $25M · United States release January 13, 2012

Box office

Budget

$25,000,000

Worldwide gross

$96,262,212

Gross vs. budget

3.9×

Production

U

Universal Pictures

Production

R

Relativity Media

Production

W

Working Title

Production

L

Leverage Entertainment

Production

C

Closest to the Hole Productions

Production

F

Farraday Films

Production

B

BlueEyes Productions

Production

S

StudioCanal

Studio · Production

L

Leverage

Production

W

Working Title Films

Production

Iceland · United States · United Kingdom · France

Produced in

Languages

Original language

English

Spoken on screen

English

Release dates

Australia · January 12, 2012

Theatrical

United States · January 13, 2012

Theatrical

Brazil

April 27, 2012 · Theatrical

Canada

January 13, 2012 · Theatrical

Czechia

January 25, 2012 · Theatrical

Denmark

July 24, 2012 · Theatrical

France

May 16, 2012 · Theatrical

Germany

March 15, 2012 · Theatrical

Greece

March 15, 2012 · Theatrical

June 13, 2012 · Physical · DVD,BluRay

Hungary

March 22, 2012 · Digital

Indonesia

January 25, 2012 · Theatrical

Ireland

February 24, 2012 · Premiere · Jameson Dublin International Film Festival

March 16, 2012 · Theatrical

Italy

July 25, 2012 · Theatrical

Japan

June 15, 2013 · Digital

Kazakhstan

January 12, 2012 · Theatrical

Lithuania

March 23, 2012 · Theatrical

Netherlands

March 8, 2012 · Theatrical

July 11, 2012 · Physical · DVD, Blu ray

June 2, 2014 · TV · Veronica

Poland

January 27, 2012 · Digital

Portugal

March 1, 2012 · Theatrical

Romania

January 12, 2012 · Premiere

South Korea

March 22, 2012 · Theatrical

Spain

March 16, 2012 · Theatrical

July 11, 2012 · Physical

Ukraine

January 19, 2012 · Theatrical

United Kingdom

March 16, 2012 · Theatrical

Vietnam

January 13, 2012 · Theatrical

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