American Gangster
(2007)
Director:
Ridley Scott
Writer:
Steven Zaillian, Mark Jacobson
Cast:
Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Josh Brolin
Loosely 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 Newark Detective Richie Roberts.