American Gangster
There are two sides to the American dream.
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- Drama
- Crime
Media
Overview
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.
Keywords
- organized crime
- society
- new york city
- aftercreditsstinger
- 1960s
- rise and fall
- family
- intense
- gangster
- wedding
- ambition
- ghetto
- drug trafficking
- surveillance
- vietnam
- nightclub
- police detective
- police corruption
- heroin
- junkie
- drug dealing
- cop
- drug smuggling
- violence
- provocative
- bribery
- law enforcement
- dishonesty
- suspenseful
- brisk
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- November 2, 2007
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United Kingdom, United States of America
- Production
- Universal Pictures,Scott Free Productions,Relativity Media,Imagine Entertainment,Film Rites
- Cast
- Denzel Washington,Russell Crowe,Josh Brolin,Chiwetel Ejiofor,Cuba Gooding Jr.,Lymari Nadal,Ted Levine,Armand Assante,John Ortiz,John Hawkesand 148 more
- Director
- Ridley Scott
- Writer
- Steven Zaillian,Mark Jacobson
- Producer
- Michael Costigan,Branko Lustig,Brian Grazer,Jim Whitaker,Ridley Scott,Nicholas Pileggi,Steven Zaillian
- Cinematography
- Harris Savides
- Music
- Marc Streitenfeld
- Budget
- $100,000,000
- Revenue
- $269,755,430
- Homepage
- Official site
- IMDb
- tt0765429