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Genre: Drama
Cast: Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Josh
Brolin,
Chiwetel Ejiofor, Carla Gugino, John Hawkes,
Ted Levine, RZA, T.I., Yul Vazquez
Directed by: Ridley Scott
Writer: Steve Zaillian
Produced by: Brian Grazer
Executive Producers: Nick Pileggi, Steve Zaillian, Branko
Lustig,
Karen Kehela Sherwood, James Whitaker, Michael Costigan
Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Brian Grazer, Steve Zaillian
and Ridley Scott team to tell the true juggernaut success story of a
cult hero from the streets of 1970s Harlem in American Gangster.
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 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, making them lone figures
on opposite sides of the law. The destinies of these two men will
become intertwined as they approach a confrontation where only
one of them can come out on top.
Washington (Training Day) and Crowe (Gladiator) lead a
spectacular cast of accomplished and rising stars—including
Josh Brolin, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Carla Gugino, T.I., RZA and John
Ortiz—in this blistering tale of a true American entrepreneur
directed by Oscar® nominee Ridley Scott (Gladiator) and
produced by Academy Award® winner Brian Grazer (A Beautiful
Mind) from a screenplay by Academy Award® winner Steve Zaillian
(Schindler’s List).
Cast: Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Josh
Brolin,
Chiwetel Ejiofor, Carla Gugino, John Hawkes,
Ted Levine, RZA, T.I., Yul Vazquez
Directed by: Ridley Scott
Writer: Steve Zaillian
Produced by: Brian Grazer
Executive Producers: Nick Pileggi, Steve Zaillian, Branko
Lustig,
Karen Kehela Sherwood, James Whitaker, Michael Costigan
Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Brian Grazer, Steve Zaillian
and Ridley Scott team to tell the true juggernaut success story of a
cult hero from the streets of 1970s Harlem in American Gangster.
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 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, making them lone figures
on opposite sides of the law. The destinies of these two men will
become intertwined as they approach a confrontation where only
one of them can come out on top.
Washington (Training Day) and Crowe (Gladiator) lead a
spectacular cast of accomplished and rising stars—including
Josh Brolin, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Carla Gugino, T.I., RZA and John
Ortiz—in this blistering tale of a true American entrepreneur
directed by Oscar® nominee Ridley Scott (Gladiator) and
produced by Academy Award® winner Brian Grazer (A Beautiful
Mind) from a screenplay by Academy Award® winner Steve Zaillian
(Schindler’s List).
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