American Gangster · 2007 ·
“There are two sides to the American dream.”
Movie Details
Production information
12 fields
Released
2007-11-02
Runtime
157 min
Genre
Crime, Drama
Director
Ridley Scott
Writer
Steven Zaillian, Mark Jacobson
Country
United States of America
Language
English
Status
Released
Budget
$100,000,000
Revenue
$269,755,430
Production
Film Rites, Imagine Entertainment, Universal Pictures, Relativity Media, Scott Free Productions
Cast
Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Josh Brolin, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Cuba Gooding Jr., Lymari Nadal, Ted Levine, Armand Assante, John Ortiz, John Hawkes
Storyline
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.
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