American Gangster

Name: American Gangster
Director: Ridley Scott
Genre: Drama, Crime
Released: 2007-11-02
Rating: 7.594

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Director: Ridley Scott
Language: English
Released: 2007-11-02
Runtime: —

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7.66,136 votes on TMDB

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The story

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.