American Gangster (movie)
- User score: 7.6
- Production country: United Kingdom, United States of America
- Producer: Ridley Scott
- Production companies: Film Rites, Imagine Entertainment, Universal Pictures, Scott Free Productions, Relativity Media
- Genre: Drama, Crime
- Budget: $100,000,000
- Revenue: $266,500,000
- Release date: 11/2/2007
- Run time: 157 min.
Movie description
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.
