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American Gangster

  • November 2007
  • 2hrs

    37mins

  • Drama
  • Crime
  • Directed by

    Branko Lustig,

    Ridley Scott,

    Jim Whitaker,

    Michael Costigan

    ...

    Starring

    Denzel Washington,

    Russell Crowe,

    Josh Brolin,

    Chiwetel Ejiofor

    ...

    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.