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American Gangster
Crime, Drama
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.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy morally complex crime sagas about power, institutional corruption, and the collision between a disciplined criminal empire and determined law enforcement.
- Tone
- tense, bleak, cerebral
- Payoff
- catharsis, vindication
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- intense
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- ambition, corruption, organized crime, law and justice, rise and fall
- Setting
- late 1960s–early 1970s, urban neighborhoods, nightclubs, and international smuggling routes
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