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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: UNIVERSAL STUDIOS HOME ENTERTAIN.
EAN: 0025193228024
Format: Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 19, 2008
Running Time: 174 minutes
Sales Rank: 725
Studio: Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: November 02, 2007
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Product Description:
Academy Award® winners Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe team with director Ridley Scott (Gladiator) for an epic story as powerful as it is true. Armed with ruthless street-wise 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 multi-million dollar empire it plunges both men into a legendary confrontation. American Gangster is 'a brutal and brilliant film' (Pete Hammond Maxim.System Requirements:Running Time: 174 minutes Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA/CRIME & CRIMINALS Rating: NR UPC: 025193228024 Manufacturer No: 61032280
Amazon.com:
Ridley Scott puts on his 'sweeping saga' gameface again, this time not for the sci-fi vistas of Blade Runner or the ancient world of Gladiator but for an urban epic. American Gangster gives the story of Frank Lucas (Denzel Washington), a real-life Harlem crime lord who built an empire on Southeast Asian heroin in the 1970s. Running parallel to Lucas's somewhat standard story is the investigation led by a persistent New Jersey cop, Richie Roberts (Russell Crowe). Roberts is a more interesting character than Lucas--too honest for his own good, unlucky in his personal life--and this kind of character, easily patronized by others, fits Crowe like a polyester shirt. Scott's tendency to hit his points square on the noggin is much in evidence here, including the typecasting of the supporting roles and the predictable Serpico atmosphere of the whole thing. (And speaking of supporting actors, the film needs more Chiwetel Ejiofor, whose role as a Lucas sidekick feels cut down.) It succeeds as a kind of chewy entertainment, fueled by the presence of two big stars working their muscles. Both Washington and Crowe look pretty brawny here. --Robert Horton
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Rating: - American Gangster - Blu-ray Info
Version: U.S.A / Region A, B, C
VC-1 BD-50 / Advanced Profile 3 / U-Control (Advanced Profile 2)
Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
Disc size: 48,70 GB
DTS-HD Master Audio English 4010 kbps 5.1 / 48kHz / 24-bit / 3934kbps (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48kHz / 24-bit / 1536kbps)
DTS Audio French 768 kbps 5.1 / 48kHz / 24-bit / 768kbps
Dolby Digital Audio English 192 kbps 2.0 / 48kHz / 192kbps ... Read More
Rating:  - Can ya feel me!!!
On another film I reviewed on Amazon, I said that I only follow directors and not actors. Here, I'll make two strong exceptions. But, first let me digress a moment to applaud Mr. Scott for yet another great film. There are directors who I look upon as the infrastructure--the superhighways--on today's movie landscape. Spielberg, Cameron, Scorsese, Scott (Tony), Lynne, Tarantino, Greengrass, Nolan, Greenaway, Tykwer, Verhoeven, Noe, Amoldavar, Jackson, Inarritu, Anno, Lee--when I see these names attached ... Read More
Rating: - Does Mr. Washington have any bad movies?
Apparently not.
This man is the greatest living hollywood actor that i know of. He puts mind, heart, spirit and soul into his roles, his whole self it seems.
With each movie ive seen, he alone makes the movie, even if its not a masterpiece (john Q), he alone, his very performance, is worth the price of admission to get a seat in a packed theater.
American Ganster is no exception. A well done inspiring picture that tells the story of a man living outside of the law, who desired ... Read More
Rating: - A true story about the 60's and 70's drug trade
I never knew about this true account of how drugs were brought in the USA during the late 60's and 70's.The acting and story are brilliant.I just got done watching the film,and I can't wait to see it again.
Rating: - THE ACADEMY WAS OUT TO LUNCH
It's a disgrace that this movie wasn't nominated for Best Picture last year. An absolutely riveting story very well told and acted. It held my interest from beginning to end. It's everything I want in a movie. Thanks to all involved, I appreciated it.
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