Rating: R
Genre:
Crime
Theatrical Release: 11/02/2007(USA)
Release Date: 02/19/2008
SubTitles: English/Espanol/French
Dubbed: English/French
Sound: DD5.1/DD2
Run Time: 335 Minutes
Flags: Violence, Nudity, Not For Children, Profanity, Sexual Situations, Drug Content
Distributor/Studio: Universal Studios
Director
Ridley Scott spins this yarn concerning a Harlem drug kingpin (
Denzel Washington) who smuggles heroin into the country by hiding it in the bodies of U.S. soldiers killed during battle in Vietnam. There was a time when no one noticed reserved driver
Frank Lucas (
Washington), but when the criminal kingpin he was charged with transporting through the city streets suddenly dies,
Lucas seizes the opportunity to build his own criminal empire. In the following months,
Lucas solidifies his status as Harlem's most innovative drug dealer by delivering a product that is purer than the competitors' and cheaper, as well. When innovative businessman
Lukas attempts to go semi-legit by becoming one of the Manhattan borough's biggest civil supporters, however, street-savvy outcast cop
Ritchie Roberts (
Russell Crowe) begins to sense a sizable shift in the hierarchy of the drug underworld. But
Roberts is one of the few honest detectives operating within a corrupt system, and as he sets out to investigate the case, crooked detective
Trupo (
Josh Brolin) does everything in his power to compromise the integrity of his idealistic counterpart. Upon clearing all of the usual Mafia-connected suspects,
Roberts begins to believe that a previously unknown black power player has come out of the woodwork to dominate the local drug trade. While
Roberts and
Lucas may be operating on opposite sides of the law, the one thing that both men have in common is a strict code of ethics that separates them from their opportunistic colleagues. Now, as a confrontation between the two men becomes inevitable and the fate of each becomes inexorably tied to the other, it gradually becomes apparent that only one of them will emerge from the conflict victorious.
~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
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Another Oscar-Winning Collaboration.
Academy Award winning producer, Brian Grazer along with Oscar winning actors, Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, and Cuba Gooding, Jr. team-up with director, Ridley Scott to bring a powerful epic drama about modern-day gangsterism to life. Inspired by a true story set in 1970s era New York City, Washington plays Frank Lucas, a Harlem crime boss, who takes over his neighborhood's choatic drug-smuggling underworld upon the death of his mentor, Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson (Clarence Williams III), and Crowe is an outcast cop, who sets out to bring down his multimillion-dollar empire. Also starring Ruby Dee, Josh Brolin, Armand Assante, Carla Gugino, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Ted Levine, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Joe Morton, and Jon Polito.
