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).