American Gangster
MovieTitle | American Gangster |
User score | 7.6 |
Release date | Nov 2, 2007 |
Genre | Drama, Crime |
Director | Ridley Scott |
Production country | United States of America |
Production companies | Film Rites, Imagine Entertainment, Universal Pictures, Relativity Media, Scott Free Productions |
Budget | $100,000,000 |
Revenue | $266,500,000 |
Run time | 157 min. |
Following the death of his employer and mentor, Bumpy Johnson, Frank Lucas establishes himself as the number one importer of heroin in the Harlem district of Manhattan. He does so by buying heroin directly from the source in South East Asia and he comes up with a unique way of importing the drugs into the United States. Partly based on a true story.