American Gangster
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
Chiwetel Ejiofor, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Josh Brolin, Armand Assante,
RZA, John Ortiz, John Hawkes and Ted Levine 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") and Scott from a screenplay by
Academy Award® winner Steve Zaillian ("Schindler's List").
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