
American Gangster
There are two sides to the American dream.
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11/2/2007Runtime
157 minsOverview
Following the death of his employer and mentor, Bumpy Johnson, Frank Lucas establishes himself as the number one importer of heroin in the Harlem district of Manhattan. He does so by buying heroin directly from the source in South East Asia and he comes up with a unique way of importing the drugs into the United States. Partly based on a true story.

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A methodical, unflinching portrait of a man's rise through Harlem's heroin trade, told with the weight of inevitability. Scorsese-adjacent crime cinema that traces the moral compromises of unchecked ambition against a backdrop of systemic corruption and personal loyalty.
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