American Gangster: One of the Best New Movies

American Gangster is one of the best new movies in theaters right now. The movie is based on the life of drug dealer Frank Lucas (Denzel Washington), who grew up amid racism in North Carolina where he watched his cousin get shot by the Klu Klux Klan for looking at a white girl.

He eventually moves to New York where he became a heroin kingpin by traveling to Asia to make drug connections so he could ship heroin back to the US in the coffins of soldiers killed in Vietnam. He soon became one of the richest and most powerful men in the US. Russell Crowe plays Richie Roberts, the lawman looking to bring Frank Lucas down.

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