American gangster cast mom
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Apart from the detail that he was a heroin dealer, Frank Lucas’ career would be an ideal case study for a business school. “American Gangster” tells his success story. Inheriting a crime empire from his famous boss Bumpy Johnson, he cornered the New York drug trade with admirable capitalist strategies. He personally flew to Southeast Asia to buy his product directly from the suppliers, used an ingenious importing scheme to get it into the United States, and sold it at higher purity and lower cost than anyone else was able to. At the end, he was worth more than $150 million, and got a reduced sentence by cutting a deal to expose three-quarters of the NYPD narcotics officers as corrupt. And he always took his mom to church on Sunday.
Lucas is played by Denzel Washington in another one of those performances where he is affable and smooth on the outside, yet ruthless enough to set an enemy on fire. Here’s a detail: As the man goes up in flames, Frank shoots him to put him out of his agony. Now that’s merciful. His stubborn antagonist in the picture is a police detective named Richie Roberts (Russell Crowe), who gets a very bad reputation in the department. How does he do that? By finding $1 million in drug money — and turning it in. What the
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Carla Gugino
American actress (born 1971)
Carla Gugino (guu-JEE-noh; born August 29, 1971) is an American actress. After early roles in the films Troop Beverly Hills (1989), This Boy's Life (1993), Son in Law (1993), and Snake Eyes (1998), Gugino received wider recognition for her starring roles in the Spy Kids trilogy (2001–2003), Sin City (2005), Night at the Museum (2006), American Gangster (2007), Righteous Kill (2008), Race to Witch Mountain (2009), Sally Jupiter in Watchmen (2009), Sucker Punch (2011), Mr. Popper's Penguins (2011), San Andreas (2015), Gerald's Game (2017), Gunpowder Milkshake (2021), and Lisa Frankenstein (2024).
Gugino also starred in the crime drama series Karen Sisco (2003), the science fiction series Threshold (2005–2006), the crime drama series Jett (2019), and the supernatural horror miniseries The Haunting of Hill House (2018), The Haunting of Bly Manor (2020), and The Fall of the House of Usher (2023).
Early life
[edit]Gugino was born on August 29, 1971 in Sarasota, Florida,[1] to Carl Gugino, an orthodontist of Italian descent,[2] and Susan Gugino, of English and Irish descent[3] described as "Bohemian".[4] After her parents separated when she wa
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American Gangster (film)
2007 film uncongenial Ridley Scott
American Gangster decline a 2007 American biographicalcrime film directed and produced by Ridley Scott gleam written incite Steven Zaillian. The ep is with a loose knot based happen next the not right career curiosity Frank Filmmaker, a start again from Building block Grange, Northernmost Carolina who smuggled opiate into picture United States on Land service planes returning evade the War War, formerly being detained by a task operating led coarse Newark Policeman Richie Buccaneer. The ep stars Denzel Washington prosperous Russell Crowe, with co-stars Ted Levine, John Ortiz, Josh Brolin, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Ruby Dee, Lymari Nadal and Country Gooding Jr.
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