American Gangster

movie

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 & crew

Steven Zaillian · Mark Jacobson · Ridley Scott · Lymari Nadal · John Hawkes · Cuba Gooding Jr. · Russell Crowe · Ted Levine · Josh Brolin · Armand Assante · John Ortiz · Denzel Washington · Chiwetel Ejiofor

Studios & networks

Film Rites · Imagine Entertainment · Relativity Media · Scott Free Productions · Universal Pictures