American Gangster (2007)
Release Date
2007-11-02
Rating
8
Duration
157 min
Countries
Keywords
new york city vietnam drug smuggling society gangster drug trafficking heroin junkie ghetto nightclub ambition rise and fall cop organized crime drug dealing police corruption wedding police detective family surveillance bribery law enforcement aftercreditsstinger dishonesty 1960s provocative factual violence suspenseful intense brisk
Qualities
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.
