AMERICAN GANGSTER
2-DISC Unrated Extended Edition
starring Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe
 
Drama/Crime
UPC: 025193228024
Unrated
 
Inspired by a true story.
 
American Gangster is a 2007 American biographical crime film directed and produced by Ridley Scott and written by Steven Zaillian. The film is fictionally 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 detective Richie Roberts.
 
The film stars Denzel Washington and
Russell Crowe in their first lead acting roles together since 1995's Virtuosity. The film also co-stars Ted Levine, John Ortiz, Josh Brolin, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Norman Reedus,
Ruby Dee, Lymari Nadal and Cuba Gooding Jr.
 
Very good used DVD movie in the original case.