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American Gangster - the Story of Frank Lucas
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Chiwetel Ojiofor’s latest movie is the bio-documentary of the life of Frank Lucas. The movie documents Lucas’ rise from mobster driver to drug kingpin in Harlem, in the 196o’s. Denzel Washington stars as Lucas, and Russel Crowe is the detective that is determined to bring him down. Lucas imports drugs in the coffins of Vietnam soldiers and is ruthless in his ruling of the drug empire. This contrasts with his softer side which is shown in the way that he takes care of his family and neighborhood. A brilliant entrepreneur, he develops his own brand of heroin: Blue Magic, and builds up an extremely profitable business machine. He uses the money that he makes to develop legitimate businesses (housing developments and drycleaning services). Detective Richie Roberts (Russell Crowe) is a detective with strong principles who works relentlessly to catch Lucas. American Gangster explores the similarities between Lucas and Roberts as they work to outwit each other in a great game of cat and mouse.
The movie boasts a star-studded cast including, Armand Assante, Cuba Gooding, Jr., singer, Common, Ruby Dee, and Josh Brolin. American Gangster will be in theaters on November 2, 2007.
5 Responses to “American Gangster - the Story of Frank Lucas”
Roxana says:
October 25th, 2007 at 6:31 pm
this is most definately on my must see list.
semaj says:
October 30th, 2007 at 5:11 pm
A lot was left out. The white mob really brought frank down.they didnt like buying from a black man and, the detective knew it.Thats why detective so in so said he had plenty of informents.
marieleveau says:
November 1st, 2007 at 10:43 am
Why come we the public did’nt know about this character,Frank Lucas?was this someone that the FBI did’t want AFRICAN AMERICANS to know about?,because as long as his product was killing us,it was alrite
SHILLER says:
November 26th, 2007 at 2:50 pm
I agree with you SEMAJ, I knew he was going down when he had front-row seats at the boxing event and the white mob was wondering how come he got better seats than them. That was really the beginning of the end. Nice movie!
Jamati Online | Chiwetel Ejiofor Picks Up a Monarch’s Award says:
December 29th, 2008 at 5:51 am
[…] (DBE) * Commander (CBE) * Officer (OBE) * Member (MBE) Ejiofor has been in several movies including American Gangster, Love Actually, Amistad, Kinky Boots, Red Dust, Talk To Me, and Children of Men, to name a […]
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