Director Ridley Scott (Gladiator, Black Hawk Down) tells the true juggernaut success story of a cult hero from the streets of 1970s Harlem. Frank Lucas (Denzel Washington) is the quiet driver to one of the inner-city's leading black crime bosses. But when his boss suddenly dies, Frank exploits the opening in the power structure to build his own drug empire.
Richie Roberts (Russell Crowe) is an outcast cop close enough to the streets to feel a shift of control in the drug underworld. Roberts believes someone is climbing the rungs above the known Mafia families and starts to suspect that a black power player has come from nowhere to dominate the scene.The destinies of these two men will become intertwined as they approach a confrontation where only one of them can come out on top.
Ridley Scott
Denzel Washington
Russel Crowe
Chiwetel Ejiofor
Cuba Gooding Jr.
Josh Brolin
Ted Levine
R
2hrs 37mins
2007