American Gangster (2007)
There are two sides to the American dream.
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.
- Date of release
- 2007-11-02
- TMDB
- 7.6 / 10 (6296)
- Runtime
- 2h 37m
- Genres
- Drama, Crime
- Director
- Ridley Scott
Casting
- Denzel Washington — Frank Lucas
- Russell Crowe — Richie Roberts
- Josh Brolin — Detective Trupo
- Chiwetel Ejiofor — Huey Lucas
- Cuba Gooding Jr. — Nicky Barnes
- Lymari Nadal — Eva
- Ted Levine — Lou Toback
- Armand Assante — Dominic Cattano
- John Ortiz — Javier J. Rivera
- John Hawkes — Freddie Spearman
- RZA — Moses Jones
- Yul Vazquez — Alfonso Abruzzo
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