The read
Every source lands within 5 points of the others, across 6,200 audience votes. Scores higher than 92% of the 3,226 2000s drama movies in this catalog. It runs long at 2h 37m.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb7.8/10
Rotten Tomatoes81%
Metacritic76/100
6,217 audience votes
Key crew
- Steven ZaillianScreenplay
- Ridley ScottDirector
- Marc StreitenfeldOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Denzel WashingtonFrank Lucas
- Russell CroweRichie Roberts
- Josh BrolinDetective Trupo
- Chiwetel EjioforHuey Lucas
- Cuba Gooding Jr.Nicky Barnes
- Lymari NadalEva
- Ted LevineLou Toback
- Armand AssanteDominic Cattano
- John OrtizJavier J. Rivera
- John HawkesFreddie Spearman
- RZAMoses Jones
- Yul VazquezAlfonso Abruzzo
Stills
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Themes
new york cityvietnamdrug smugglingsocietygangsterdrug traffickingheroinjunkieghettonightclubambitionrise and fall
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