American Gangster is coming to Netflix this September. Directed by Ridley Scott, with a script written by Steven Zaillian (The Irishman) loosely based on the criminal career of Frank Lucas, the ...

Studio Universal Pictures Rating R Frank Lucas was one of the most notorious ... as well as Russell Crowe's portrayal of attorney Richie Roberts, are enough to make American Gangster one of ...

stars as Frank Lucas in the hit film. He's joined by fellow Academy Award recipient Russell Crowe, celebrated for Gladiator, who plays Detective Richie Roberts who in real life would go on to be a ...

crime boss Frank Lucas (Washington) rules Harlem's chaotic drug underworld. When outcast cop Richie Roberts (Crowe) sets out to bring down Lucas's multi-million dollar empire, it plunges both men ...

Until the premiere of Gladiator II, American Gangster was Denzel Washington's highest-grossing movie, having no trouble retaining the spot between his favored roles in Training Day or The ...

Harlem drug dealer Frank Lucas rises to power in corrupt 1970s ... On the other side of the law, honest cop Richie Roberts dedicates himself to taking down `the most dangerous man walking the ...

American Gangster is a 2007 crime film directed by Ridley Scott, featuring Denzel Washington as Frank Lucas, a heroin kingpin ...

with both Denzel Washington (as a heavily fictionalized version of low-profile drug kingpin Frank Lucas) and Crowe (as Richie Roberts, the cop who helps bring him down) playing their characters ...