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American Gangster - Full Cast & Crew. Set in the early 1970s, this biopic stars Denzel Washington as real-life New York City drug kingpin Frank Lucas, and Russell Crowe as the cop sworn to...
- Ridley Scott, Brian Grazer
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Screenplay. Mark Jacobson. Writer. Following the death of his employer and mentor, Bumpy Johnson, Frank Lucas establishes himself as the number one importer of heroin in the Harlem district of Manhattan.
The film is loosely based on the criminal career of Frank Lucas, a gangster from La Grange, North Carolina who smuggled heroin into the United States on American service planes returning from the Vietnam War, before being detained by a task force led by Newark Detective Richie Roberts.
- "The Return of Superfly", by Mark Jacobson
- $100 million
- $266.5 million
- Marc Streitenfeld
Nov 2, 2007 · American Gangster: Directed by Ridley Scott. With Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Josh Brolin. An outcast New York City cop is charged with bringing down Harlem drug lord Frank Lucas, whose real life inspired this partly biographical film.
- Ridley Scott
- 2 min
A chauffeur (Denzel Washington) rises to prominence as the most-powerful crime boss in 1970s Harlem.
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