mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 31 2008 | new jersey, american gangster, watched, movies, denzel washington, vietnam
New York Times article on Frank Lucas and the movie.
Quoted: It was the early 1970s, and every week nearly four dozen American soldiers were returning home from Vietnam in flag-draped coffins. Frank Lucas, who ruled a crime empire in Newark and Harlem, had a plan: smuggle the purest Asian heroin he could find into New York, stashed inside those coffins.
mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 31 2008 | movies, american gangster, denzel washington, russell crowe, watched
Enjoyed it, although I tend to like "based on true story" sorts of movies. Did not know about Frank Lucas or the rampant police corruption of the time until watching this.
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