American Gangster

While Harlem "blue magic" drug lord Frank Lucas (Denzel Washington) is busy building his heroin monopoly during the 1970s with the help of his extended family (Chiwetel Ejiofor, Common, et al.) and greedy military soldiers in Vietnam and protecting his Puerto Rican wife and mother (Ruby Dee, et al.) in this well-paced, factually based, gritty Ridley Scott film, an honest New York City detective (Russell Crowe) who is shunned by corrupt cops (Josh Brolin, et al.) on the take gathers a trustworthy team to ferret out the self-made drug entrepreneur and his rival drug kingpins (Armand Assante, Cuba Gooding, Jr., et al.).
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