In 1968, Frank Lucas becomes a powerful figure in the heroin trade, smuggling highly pure heroin from Thailand to the US, while Detective Richie Roberts challenges him, leading to Franks arrest and eventual release after cooperating with exposing corrupt police officers. American Gangster is a 2007 American English-language Biography Crime motion picture featuring Russell Crowe, Denzel Washington, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Cuba Gooding Jr., Josh Brolin, Ted Levine and Tracie Mick-shoemaker. The movie is based on The Return of Superfly by Mark Jacobson. Imagine Entertainment in association with Scott Free Productions and Relativity Media. were the production houses involved in the project along with executive producer(s) Brian Grazer and Ridley Scott. American Gangster is written by Steven Zaillian and Mark Jacobson and it is directed by Ridley Scott. Universal Pictures acquired the distribution rights for the film. American Gangster was released on 17th April 2019 and takes a screen time of 157 minutes. The Film was successful at box office. American Gangster was made on a budget of $100 million and it was a super hit at box office gross of $269 million. The screenplay for the movie was written by Steven Zaillian. Cinematography was done by Harris Savides and editing by Pietro Scalia. The music was composed by Marc Streitenfeld.
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American Gangster Reviews and Ratings
Average Review Rating : positive
Positive Review Rating : 78%
Owen Gleiberman
American Gangster is never dull, but it could have used more good old fashioned melodramatic intrigue. ( Read More )
Nick Schager
Not only is American Gangster dumb as a rock, but its also far too convinced of its import to be any fun. ( Read More )
Roger Ebert
The Mafia cant believe it, either, but Frank not only pulls it off, but is still alive at the end. ( Read More )
Stephen Hunter
This is what Scott and Zaillian and Washington and Crowe give us.Washington is brilliant. ( Read More )
Marc Savlov
Based on Mark Jacobsons New York magazine article, American Gangster does a crackerjack job at nailing the look and feel of New York Citys bad old days, when mayors Lindsay and Beame (mis)ruled over the Manhattan canyons and Bronx tenements aided and abetted by a police department riddled with more internal corruption and outer rot than a smack heads corpse. ( Read More )