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.
Details
- Director
- Ridley Scott
- Writer
- Steven Zaillian
- Original Language
- English
- Budget
- $100,000,000
Cast
Armand Assante
Chiwetel Ejiofor
Cuba Gooding Jr.
Denzel Washington
John Hawkes
John Ortiz
Josh Brolin
Lymari Nadal
Russell Crowe
Ted Levine
Keywords
1960s
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ambition
bribery
brisk
cop
dishonesty
drug dealing
drug smuggling
drug trafficking
factual
family
gangster
ghetto
heroin
intense
junkie
law enforcement
new york city
nightclub
organized crime
police corruption
police detective
provocative
rise and fall
society
surveillance
suspenseful
vietnam
violence
wedding
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