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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.
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 Detective Richie Roberts .
Watch American Gangster | Netflix. Ambition and corruption clash in 1970s Harlem, where a charismatic drug kingpin rises to power and faces off with an upright detective and deadly rivals. Watch trailers & learn more.
Nov 2, 2007 · Rated 4/5 Stars • Rated 4 out of 5 stars 05/08/24 Full Review Mate P American Gangster is a good movie. It's interesting, it's well-paced, even though it's two and a half hours long. It's brutal ...
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Nov 2, 2007 · 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 ...
The film opens with Bumpy Johnson (Clarence Williams III) and Frank Lucas (Denzel Washington) pouring gasoline on a Hispanic man in a dark alleyway at night and then lighting him on fire. As the man screams in pain, Frank shoots him. It is November 1968, New York City. Bumpy is a local gangster who operates and runs most of Harlem, and Frank ...
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