Overview - American Gangster

Date of release

Genres

  • Drama
  • Crime

Runtime: 157 minutes

Homepage: American Gangster

Budget

$100,000,000.00

Revenue

$269,755,430.00

Spoken Languages

  • English

Production companies

  • Name: Film Rites

    Production country United States of America

  • Name: Imagine Entertainment

    Production country United States of America

  • Name: Universal Pictures

    Production country United States of America

  • Name: Relativity Media

    Production country United States of America

  • Name: Scott Free Productions

    Production country United States of America

Overview

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.

Cast

  • Name: Denzel Washington

    Character: Frank Lucas

    Popularity: 8.7783

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  • Name: Russell Crowe

    Character: Richie Roberts

    Popularity: 4.6058

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  • Name: Josh Brolin

    Character: Detective Trupo

    Popularity: 5.5907

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  • Name: Chiwetel Ejiofor

    Character: Huey Lucas

    Popularity: 3.0964

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  • Name: Cuba Gooding Jr.

    Character: Nicky Barnes

    Popularity: 2.632

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  • Name: Lymari Nadal

    Character: Eva

    Popularity: 1.4167

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  • Name: Ted Levine

    Character: Lou Toback

    Popularity: 2.5574

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  • Name: Armand Assante

    Character: Dominic Cattano

    Popularity: 2.7795

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