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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.
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. He does so by buying heroin directly from the source in South East Asia and he comes up with a unique way of importing the drugs into the United States. Partly based on a true story.
American Gangster is a 2007 American biographical crime film directed and produced by Ridley Scott and written by Steven Zaillian.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 ...
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 bring him down ...
- Ridley Scott, Brian Grazer
Steven Zaillian. 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. He does so by buying heroin directly from the source in South East Asia and he comes up with a unique way of importing the ...
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American Gangster (2007) Directed by Ridley Scott / Brian Grazer Genres - Mystery , Drama , Crime , Thriller | Sub-Genres - Crime Drama , Gangster Film | Release Date - Nov 2, 2007 (USA) | Run Time - 156 min. | Countries - United Kingdom, United States | MPAA Rating - R
