American Gangster (2007)
Director: Ridley Scott
Writers: Steven Zaillian, Mark Jacobson
Cast: Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Josh Brolin, Ted Levine, Lymari Nadal, Carla Gugino, Idris Elba, Ruby Dee
American Gangster is a biographical drama that fictionalizes the life of real-life gangster Frank Lucas, based on a New York Magazine article called The Return of Superfly. Lucas was known for smuggling heroin into the U.S. on military planes returning from Vietnam and becoming one of the most powerful crime lords in New York during the 1970s. Washington plays Lucas and Crowe plays detective Richie Roberts, who notices that Lucas is more powerful than the Italian mafia and tries to capture him.
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