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.
Genres
Drama, Crime
Studio
Film Rites
Language
en
Status
Released
How American Gangster performed
Budget
$100.0M
Worldwide Gross
$269.8M
Gross Profit
$169.8M
Return
2.7× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$39M
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~48/52, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (30% of the domestic run, typical for Drama) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
Where to Watch
Cast
Frank Lucas
Denzel Washington
Frank Lucas
Richie Roberts
Russell Crowe
Richie Roberts
Detective Trupo
Josh Brolin
Detective Trupo
Huey Lucas
Chiwetel Ejiofor
Huey Lucas
Nicky Barnes
Cuba Gooding Jr.
Nicky Barnes
Eva
Lymari Nadal
Eva
Lou Toback
Ted Levine
Lou Toback
Dominic Cattano
Armand Assante
Dominic Cattano
Javier J. Rivera
John Ortiz
Javier J. Rivera
Freddie Spearman
John Hawkes
Freddie Spearman
Moses Jones
RZA
Moses Jones
Alfonso Abruzzo
Yul Vazquez
Alfonso Abruzzo
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