American Gangster
There are two sides to the American dream.
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- Rise and fall
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- Criminal underworld
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- Release
- 2007
- Runtime
- 157 min
- Director
- Ridley Scott
Synopsis
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.
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