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American Gangster
There are two sides to the American dream.
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.
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- Release
- 2007-11-02
- Rating
- R
- TMDB score
- 7.6/10
- Original language
- EN
- Status
- Released
- Production
- United States of America
- Studio
- Film Rites, Imagine Entertainment, Universal Pictures
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