Products: American Gangster Extended Edition
American Gangster Extended Edition
Universal| Category: | Movies |
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| Subcategory: | Drama |
| Price: | 14.99 |
| Average Rating: | (1 Vote) |
| Description: | A drug lord smuggles heroin into Harlem during the 1970s by hiding the stash inside the coffins of American soldiers returning from Vietnam. Formerly titled "Tru", American Gangster is a biopic of Harlem heroin kingpin Frank Lucas. Lucas grew up in rural, segregated North Carolina where he watched as his cousin was shot by the Klan for looking at a white girl. In the early 1970s he became the biggest heroin dealer in Harlem with a smuggling scheme that imported heroin out of Southeast Asia in the caskets of dead Vietnam soldiers. He soon made upwards of one million dollars a day in drug sales. American Gangster centers on narcotics lawman Richie Roberts' struggle to bring down Lucas, whose flamboyant style earned him the street name "Superfly", and catching the crooked cops and drug dealers who profited from Lucas's scheme. |
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- mom2my2kids, Mon, 08 Dec 2008 23:02:55 UTC.
- 1st review
This was an AWESOME movie. I really enjoy gangster/mafia movies, and this one is up there with my favorite gangster movies now. This is the extended edition of the movie not shown in theaters, with scenes that were cut when it debuted on the big screen. Denzel Washington, one of my favorite actors, gives a stunning performance as Gangster, Frank Lucas. Russell Crowe, whom I admit has never been one of my favorite actors, also performed as well as Washington as Richie Roberts. The movie takes place over about 5-6 years, detailing the very quick rise to power of Frank Lucas, as a drug dealer, who cut out the middle man providing addicts with PURE cocaine. The movie captures the fact that so many addicts died because they were so used to the "watered down" version of the normal suppliers. It was also stunning that he was in business with some of the military to smuggle the drugs into the USA for him. Lucas' fall came just as quickly as his rise to power. The movie was based on a true story, and it was stunning to me that this man who was gangster-educated on the streets ofHarlem, actually rose ABOVE the usual crime bosses (mafia) we always read and hear about. I loved this movie, and so did my husband. It's not usual that we both would enjoy the same movie this much, but it was just that good. I highly recommend it!
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