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  • American Gangster
  • Opened November 2, 2007 | Runtime:2 hr. 37 min.
  • R
    violence, pervasive drug content and language, nudity and sexuality
  • Information for parents: Common Sense Media says Iffy for 15+. Read More
  • Frank Lucas (Denzel Washington) earns his living as a chauffeur to one of Harlem's leading mobsters. After his boss dies, Frank uses his own ingenuity and strict business code to rise up as one of the inner city's most powerful crime bosses. Read More
  • Cast: Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Josh Brolin
  • Director: Ridley Scott
  • Genres: Drama

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  • Must Go!

    A must go, read why!

    Richie Roberts (Russel Crowe) gets one of Frank Lucas's (Denzel Washington) cousins to wear a wire after he witnesses him almost kill his girlfriend. Roberts is able to figure out when Lucas's next shipment is coming into the US. They find that Lucas is smuggling the heroin into the country by hiding it in the false bottoms of dead soldiers's coffins.

    Frank Lucas is arrested but makes a deal with Roberts in order to shave time off of his sentence. He gives Roberts enough information to put away two-thirds of the crooked cops that were in the special drug task force.

    At the very end of the movie it is 1991, and Lucas is released from prison. His wife goes back to Puerto Rico.

  • Must Go!

    American Gangster assassinates all doubts

    I was not sure how this movie would pan out. I am a mafia/gangster movie fan but I did not want to see a story of sex, murder and mayhem with no moral to the story.

    I was blown away.

    Denzel delivers an impeccable performance. The cast included veterans and new comers. I enjoyed the battle between good and evil, black and white, right and wrong. I think that the way in which Denzel used his seething eyes, and cold, pursed lips to portray such deep-seated pain, anger and frustration goes to show that great acting is not in big gestures and physical gyrations but it can be quiet, dark and strong.

    I was disappointed in T.I.'s performance but enjoyed watching Common on the big screen. It was also great to see Ruby Dee as the mother but wish she had a more dominant role. She was the object of his devotion but only once did she show her strength. Begging me to question where Frank got his from. Poverty in America gave birth to the American Gangster.

    A must see.

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    American Gangster

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    This film is excellent. Ridley Scott has assembled an excellent ensemble to tell the story of Frank Lucas, a Harlem drug lord of the 1970s, and Richie Roberts, the New Jersey prosecutor who brought him down.
    Scott treads a fine line in trying not to glorify Lucas's business or his lifestyle while at the same time presenting Lucas as a many-faceted character.
    Ruby Dee as his mother and Cuba Gooding Jr. as a competing drug lord turn in fine perfromances also.
    Only drawback that at 2 1/2 hours plus, the fiilm is a bit long. Bring plenty of popcorn!

American Gangster Critic Reviews

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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 100
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    This is an engrossing story, told smoothly and well, and Russell Crowe's...

  • 90
    Washington Post | Stephen Hunter

    It has the aspirations of an epic of crime and punishment, a superb feel for...

  • 90
    Los Angeles Times | Kenneth Turan

    Finely made and richly satisfying film.

  • 88
    Rolling Stone | Peter Travers

    Call it the black "Scarface" or "the Harlem Godfather" or just one hell of an...

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