American Gangster (UK) - Unrated Extended Edition

Crime, Thriller

Denzel Washington	Frank Lucas
Russell Crowe	Det. Richie Roberts
Chiwetel Ejiofor	Huey Lucas
Josh Brolin	Detective Trupo
Lymari Nadal	Eva
Ted Levine	Lou Toback
Roger Guenveur Smith	Nate
John Hawkes	Det. Freddie Spearman
Yul Vazquez	Alphonse Abruzzo
Malcolm Goodwin	Jimmy Zee
RZA	Moses Jones
Ruby Dee
Common
Cuba Gooding Jr.
Armand Assante

Director	Ridley Scott
Producer	Brian Grazer; Ridley Scott; Michael Costigan; Jonathan Filley
Writer	Steven Zaillian; Mark Jacobson
Cinematography	Harris Savides
Musician	Marc Streitenfeld

This gangster story is of a different beat as it follows the efforts of a 1970’s detective of the Manhattan police department, Richard Roberts (Russell Crowe) from taking down a heroin kingpin who has amassed a large criminal and drug empire in New York. This would be Frank Lucas (Denzel Washington). Lucas is smuggling drugs into the country through the returning coffins of America’s fallen soldiers from Vietnam. However Frank Lucas has become the proverbial son of Harlem after the death of the current mob boss and this makes Roberts’ job even harder. Already being an outcast with his own police department, Roberts is led down a road that shows him how two complete strangers can be linked by faith and only one can come out the winner.