American Gangster (2007)

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Nobody used to notice Frank Lucas (Oscar® winner Washington), the quiet driver to one of the inner city's leading black crime bosses. But when his boss suddenly dies, Frank exploits the opening in the power structure to build his own empire and create his own version of the American Dream. Through ingenuity and a strict business ethic, he comes to rule the inner-city drug trade, flooding the streets with a purer product at a better price. Lucas outplays all of the leading crime syndicates and becomes not only one of the city's mainline corrupters, but part of its circle of legit civic superstars.

Richie Roberts (Oscar® winner Crowe) is an outcast cop close enough to the streets to feel a shift of control in the drug underworld. Roberts believes someone is climbing the rungs above the known Mafia families and starts to suspect that a

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Directed by

Ridley Scott Gladiator, Blade Runner, Alien

Written by

Steven Zaillian Schindler's List, Awakenings, The Falcon and the Snowman Mark Jacobson The Believer, Love Ranch

Cast

Denzel Washington Inside Man, Man on Fire, Training Day Russell Crowe Gladiator, L.A. Confidential, 3:10 to Yuma Chiwetel Ejiofor Children of Men, Serenity, Inside Man Josh Brolin No Country for Old Men, Grindhouse: Planet Terror, Planet Terror Ted Levine The Silence of the Lambs, Heat, The Fast and the Furious RZA Be Cool, Derailed, The Making of 'Kill Bill' Ruben Santiago-Hudson Mr. Brooks, The Devil's Advocate, Shaft [more]

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