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AMERICAN GANGSTER (2007)

VISUAL AIDS
POSTERS AND COVER ART



THE BACK OF THE BOX
WHAT THE STUDIO WANTS YOU TO KNOW

    Academy Award winners Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe team with director Ridley Scott (Gladiator) in this powerful, epic story. Armed with ruthless, streetwise tactics and a strict sense of honor, crime boss Frank Lucas (Washington) rules Harlem's chaotic drug underworld. When outcast cop Richie Roberts (Crowe) sets out to bring down Lucas's multimillion-dollar empire, it plunges both men into a legendary confrontation. American Gangster is "a brutal and brilliant film" (Pete Hammond, Maxim).

STARRING:

Denzel Washington: Frank Lucas
Russell Crowe: Detective Richie Roberts
Chiwetel Ejiofor: Huey Lucas
Cuba Gooding Jr.: Nicky Barnes
Josh Brolin: Detective Trupo
Ted Levine: Detective Lou Toback
Armand Assante: Dominic Cattano
John Ortiz: Javier J. Rivera
John Hawkes: Detective Freddie Spearman
RZA: Moses Jones
Ruby Dee: Mama Lucas

SCREENWRITER: Steven Zaillian

DIRECTOR: Ridley Scott

RUNNING TIME: 158 minutes

STUDIO: Universal

Average Hollywood Guys Rating: B

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GIGGLES, GLOBES AND OSCARS
AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS

ACADEMY AWARDS
(2 nominations and 0 wins)

Best Supporting Actress - Ruby Dee
(nominated)

Best Art Direction - Arthur Max (art director) and Beth A. Rubino (set decorator)
(nominated)

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GOLDEN GIGGLES

No awards or nominations given to this film.

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GOLDEN GLOBES
(3 nominations and 0 wins)

Best Picture (Drama)
(nominated)

Best Actor (Drama) - Denzel Washington
(nominated)

Best Director - Ridley Scott
(nominated)

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THE GEEK BOX
TRIVIA TO IMPRESS YOUR EASILY IMPRESSED FRIENDS

• This movie is based on an 2000 New York Magazine article called The Return Of Superfly by Marc Jacobson.
• For years this movie was in some sort of development. At one point Terry George was set to direct with Don Cheadle and Joaquin Pheonix in the lead roles, however that project was scrapped. In 2004 the film began pre-production with director Antoine Fuqua and with Denzel Washington and Benico Del Toro in the leads, however Universal halted production at the time because they were concerned the budget was far too high to make a profit. As a result the studio was forced to pay Washington 20 million dollars and Del Toro 5 million dollars as they both had a clause in their contract stating they would get their full salaries regardless if the movie was made or not. Washington received a second paycheck for this film when it was green-lit again and he was once again hired for the lead role.
• Director Ridley Scott filmed on location in the Chiang Mai Province of Thailand, and many of the extras that Scott hired for the shoot actually worked for Frank Lucas' drug operation.
• Shortly after this film's release a number of members of the New York police department filed a lawsuit against the producers of this film claiming that some of the facts in this movie regarding the number of "dirty cops" that were convicted as a result of Frank Lucas and Richie Roberts collaboration was drastically incorrect. They said since this movie claimed to be based off of a true story that they were defaming the good name of the police department. The lawsuit was eventually dismissed.

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