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American Gangster (2007)
Directed by Ridley Scott
“There are two sides to the American dream.”
Drama, Crime · 2h 37m
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.
Cast
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
Crew
- Director
- Ridley Scott
- Screenplay
- Steven Zaillian
- Director of Photography
- Harris Savides
- Original Music Composer
- Marc Streitenfeld
- Editor
- Pietro Scalia
- Producer
- Brian Grazer, Ridley Scott
Details
- Release date
- 2007-11-02
- Runtime
- 2h 37m
- Genres
- Drama, Crime
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Film Rites, Imagine Entertainment, Universal Pictures, Relativity Media, Scott Free Productions
- Budget
- $100,000,000
- Box office
- $269,755,430