American Gangster (2007)

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American Gangster

ORIGINAL TITLE

American Gangster

YEAR

2007	Apple Trailer

RUNNING TIME

157 min.

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COUNTRY

(New) Visual section

DIRECTOR

Ridley Scott

SCREENWRITER

Steven Zaillian

COMPOSER

Marc Streitenfeld

CINEMATOGRAPHER

Harris Savides

CAST

Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Carla Gugino, Cuba Gooding Jr., Josh Brolin, Ruby Dee, Chiwetel Ejiofor, RZA, Ted Levine, Armand Assante, Ric Young, Clarence Williams III, John Ortiz, John Hawkes, Jon Polito, Kevin Corrigan, KaDee Strickland

STUDIO/PRODUCER

Universal Pictures / Imagine Entertainment / Relativity Media / Scott Free Productions

OFFICIAL WEB

http://www.americangangster.net/

AWARDS

2007: 2 Nominations for Oscar: Best Supporting Actress (Ruby Dee), Best Art Direction
2007: 3 Nominations for Golden Globe, including Best Movie Drama
2007: 5 Nominations BAFTA: Best Movie, Editing, Cinematography, Original Screenplay, Music

GENRE

Thriller. Drama | Mafia. Drugs. Based on a true story. The 60s. The 70s

SYNOPSIS/PLOT

Nobody used to notice Frank Lucas, the quiet driver for 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 and floods 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 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 black power player has come from nowhere to dominate the scene. Both Lucas and Roberts share a rigorous ethical code that sets them apart from their own colleagues, which makes them lone figures on opposite sides of the law. The destinies of these two men will become intertwined as they approach a confrontation in which only one of them can come out on top.

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