American Gangster

Theatrical - Wide 2007-11-02

Cast Denzel Washington Russell Crowe Josh Brolin Chiwetel Ejiofor Cuba Gooding Jr.
Directed by Ridley Scott
Written by Steven Zaillian

Box Office Gross: $269,755,430

Running Time: 157 minutes

Language: English

Production Company: Film Rites, Imagine Entertainment, Universal Pictures, Relativity Media, Scott Free Productions

Genres: Crime Drama

JoBlo's Rating

6/10

Synopsis

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... See more Newark Detective Richie Roberts.

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American Gangster

Posted 19 years ago

Review Date: Director: Ridley Scott Writer: Steven Zaillian Producers: Ridley Scott, Brian Grazer Actors: Denzel Washington as Frank Russell Crowe as Richie Josh Brolin as Trupo Plot: A black dude turns major mafioso in Harlem, NY in the early ‘70s...

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New Gangster trailer

Posted 19 years ago

Just about two months ago, we showed you the first trailer for the Ridley Scott directed fact based drama AMERICAN GANGSTER. It wasn’t entirely nut shrinking but the more complete trailer the folks over at Empire Online recently posted is....

Gangster trailer!

Posted 19 years ago

I’d love to be able to give you some fancy, schmancy hi-def screencaps from the new AMERICAN GANGSTER trailer (as we often like to do), but I couldn’t get the dang HD version working on my machine. So I won’t...

Excl: Gangster posters!

Posted 19 years ago

AMERICAN GANGSTER was a project that almost never happened. Antoine Fuqua was scheduled to direct Denzel Washington and Benicio Del Toro in the film (originally titled THE RETURN OF SUPERFLY) when creative differences shut production down. Universal pulled the plug...