American Gangster

Name: American Gangster
Director: Ridley Scott
Genre: Drama, Crime
Released: 2007
Rating: 4

Ridley Scott • 157 min • 2007

DramaCrime

“There are two sides to the American dream.”

Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Josh Brolin, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Cuba Gooding Jr., Lymari Nadal

Greg✦✦✦½ (3.5)

Peer✦✦✦✦½ (4.5)

Gap: 1.0 ★

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Synopsis

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.