Genre: Crime, Drama, Urban
Duration: 2 hrs. 37 min.
Cast: Carla Gugino, Denzel Washington, Josh Brolin, Russell Crowe, Chiwetel Ejiofor
Director: Ridley Scott
Distributor: Universal Pictures
Release Date: November 2, 2007

Academy Award® winners Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe team with director Ridley Scott (GLADIATOR) for an epic story as powerful as it is true. Armed with ruthless, street-wise tactics and a strict sense of honor, crime boss Frank Lucas (Washington) rules Harlem’s chaotic drug underworld. When outcast cop Richie Roberts (Crowe) sets out to bring down Lucas’s multi-million dollar empire, it plunges both men into a legendary confrontation. American Gangster is ‘a brutal and brilliant film’ (Pete Hammond, Maxim)

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