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Name: AMERICAN GANGSTER
Released: 2007-11-2
Cast: Denzel Washington, Josh Brolin, Ted Levine, Russell Crowe, Chiwetel Ejiofor

AMERICAN GANGSTER

R
2h 37m
2007

81%

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Academy Award®-winner Russell Crowe is an honest cop battling drugs and police corruption in 1970s New York. The main focus of his investigation is a huge heroin empire built by a charismatic black drug dealer (Academy Award®-winner Denzel Washington) who imports enormous amounts of top-grade heroin from Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. Working from a powerful screenplay by Academy Award®-winning writer Steven Zaillian (Schindler's List), Academy Award®-nominated director Ridley Scott helms a taut and gritty crime drama featuring powerhouse performances from its heavyweight leading men. Based on a true story.

Director:

Ridley Scott

Producer:

Brian Grazer, Ridley Scott

Writer:

Steven Zaillian

Cast:

Denzel Washington, Josh Brolin, Ted Levine, Russell Crowe, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Armand Assante, John Ortiz, John Hawkes, Rza

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

81%

Critics Consensus: American Gangster is a gritty and entertaining throwback to classic gangster films, with its lead performers firing on all cylinders.

Reviews

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Sean Axmaker

Scott evokes the crime cinema of the seventies with his mix of gritty police thriller and sprawling crime epic (with a sprinkling of blaxploitation excess).... But its roots are equally in the rise-and-fall gangster thrillers of the eighties and nineties.

Despite having a personal connection to the story in this film, I also love this movie for the dialogue, performances (particularly Denzel's) and the music.

Very solid performances anchored by Denzel. I think they could have trimmed 15-20 minutes of the Russell Crowe storyline and it would have been a near perfect film.

Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe deliver unbeatable performances with keen character development and a detailed screenplay.

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Richard Propes

American Gangster is a modestly flawed yet consistently entertaining crime drama.

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