Hollywood Movie American Gangster Summary Plot Actors Actresses Quotes

Hollywood Movie American Gangster, a 2007 American biographical crime movie directed and produced in the USA by Ridley Scott and written and produced by Steven Zaillian. The film is fictionalized based on Frank Lucas’ criminal career. He was a La Grange, North Carolina gangster who smuggled heroin into America on American service planes. After returning from Vietnam War, Lucas was detained by Richie Roberts’ task force. Russell Crowe and Denzel Washington star in the film, their first roles as lead actors since Virtuosity (1995). Ted Levine, John Ortiz, and Josh Brolin are also featured in the movie: Ruby Dee, Lymari Nal, Cuba Gooding Jr., Chiwetel Emofor, Norman Reedus, and Chiwetel Ejiofor.

 

Hollywood Movie American Gangster Plot

New York, during the ’70s. Frank Lucas, the quiet driver of the most potent African-American boss in the city, is Frank Lucas. Frank Lucas takes over the role of the boss and becomes the first New York, drug dealer. He carries heroin from Asia. He eliminates all his rivals, including the Italian-American mafia, and is a prominent personality. Detective Richie Roberts soon discovers that something is different in drug trafficking control.

 

Hollywood Movie “American Gangster” Quotes

 

“The most important thing in business is honesty, integrity, hardwork… family… never forgetting where we came from.”
DENZEL WASHINGTON – Frank Lucas

“- Eva: You’re Frank and this is your place?
– Frank Lucas: That’s right. I’m Frank and this is my place.
– Eva: Why is it called Small’s? Why don’t you call it Frank’s?
– Frank Lucas: When you own something, you can call it what you want.”
LYMARI NADAL – Eva
DENZEL WASHINGTON – Frank Lucas

“I always wonder if people know when history’s being made, and what they’re doing at the time. This, for instance, could be a historic moment, and you’re sipping a glass of ice water.”
ARMAND ASSANTE – Dominic Cattano

“You know what normal is to me? I ain’t see normal since I was 6 years old. Normal is seeing the police ride up to my house, dragging my 12 year old cousin out and tying him to a pole, shoving a shotgun in his mouth so hard they bust his teeth, then they bust two shotgun shells in his head, knocking it off. That’s what normal is to me.”
DENZEL WASHINGTON – Frank Lucas

“- Frank Lucas: Let me ask you something. You think by putting me in jail, you’re going to stop even one junkie from dying? Because you won’t. If it isn’t me, it’ll be someone else. With me or without me, nothing’s going to change.
– Detective Richie Roberts: Then that’s the way it is.”
DENZEL WASHINGTON – Frank Lucas
RUSSELL CROWE – Detective Richie Roberts

“- Nephew: I don’t wanna play baseball no more.
– Frank Lucas: Well, what do you want?
– Nephew: I want what you got uncleFrank. I wanna be you.”
T.I. – Nephew
DENZEL WASHINGTON – Frank Lucas

“What right do they have, of cutting out the suppliers? Pushing out all the middlemen. Buying direct from the manufacturer. Sony this. Toshiba that. All them Chinks putting Americans out of work. That’s the way it is now. You can’t find the heart of anything to stick the knife.”
CLARENCE WILLIAMS III – Bumpy Johnson

 

“You think you’re going to heaven because you’re honest, but you’re not. You’re going to the same hell as the crooked cops you can’t stand.”
talking to Richie

CARLA GUGINO – Laurie Roberts:

“This is my home. My country. Frank Lucas don’t run from nobody. This is America.”
DENZEL WASHINGTON – Frank Lucas

 

“It’s not in my best interest to say this Frank, but quitting while you’re ahead, is not the same as quitting.”
RIC YOUNG – Chinese General:

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“Ya are what ya are in this world. That’s either one of two things: Either you’re somebody, or you ain’t nobody.”
DENZEL WASHINGTON – Frank Lucas

“The number one fear of people isn’t dying, it’s public speaking.”
RUSSELL CROWE – Detective Richie Roberts

“Just because you were honest and you didn’t take money like every other cop, I left you? No, you don’t take money for one reason. To buy being dishonest about everything else. And that’s worse than taking money.”
talking to Richie

CARLA GUGINO – Laurie Roberts:

 

“This is the problem. This is what’s wrong with America. It’s gotten so big, you just can’t find your way. The grocery store on the corner is now a supermarket. The candy store is a MacDonald’s. And this place, a super fucking discount store. Where’s the pride of ownership? Where’s the personal service?”
CLARENCE WILLIAMS III – Bumpy Johnson

 

“- Mama Lucas: You don’t shoot cops. Even I know that. Eva knows it. The only one who doesn’t seem to know is you.
– Frank Lucas: All right, Mama. I’m not going to, I promise you. I’m not going to shoot anyone.”
RUBY DEE – Mama Lucas
DENZEL WASHINGTON – Frank Lucas

 

“Bumpy was rich, but he wasn’t white man rich, you see he wasn’t wealthy. He didn’t own his own company. He thought he did, but he didn’t. He just managed it. White man owned it so they owned him. Nobody owns me, though.”
DENZEL WASHINGTON – Frank Lucas

“- Detective Trupo: What are we gonna do about this?
– Frank Lucas: We ain’t gon’ do shit about it. Close it up. Throw it back in the trunk. Everybody go home. Have some pumpin pie, warm apple cider…
– Detective Trupo: I got a better idea, or would you rather me throw you and your brother in the fuckin’ river?
– Frank Lucas: Or, would you…”
after finding Blue Magic

RUSSELL CROWE – Detective Richie Roberts
DENZEL WASHINGTON – Frank Luca

“The loudest one in the room is the weakest one in the room.”
DENZEL WASHINGTON – Frank Lucas

 

 

“- Detective Richie Roberts: You… want a drink or something? Celebrate?
– Frank Lucas: You got any holy water?”
RUSSELL CROWE – Detective Richie Roberts
DENZEL WASHINGTON – Frank Lucas

“- Detective Richie Roberts: I want to know everyone you’ve met for the last twenty years. Everyone you sold to. Every cop you ever paid off. Every one who ever stole from you. Every one you remember.
– Frank Lucas: Oh, I remember them all. That’s not the problem.
– Detective Richie Roberts: What is?
– Frank Lucas: The jails aren’t big enough.”
RUSSELL CROWE – Detective Richie Roberts
DENZEL WASHINGTON – Frank Lucas

“Laurie, I’m sorry I never gave you the kind of life you wanted, all right. I’m sorry it was never enough. Don’t punish me for being honest. Don’t take my boy away.”
RUSSELL CROWE – Detective Richie Roberts

 

“Success. It’s got enemies. You can be successful and have enemies or you can be unsuccessful and have friends.”
ARMAND ASSANTE – Dominic Cattano