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.

CAST AND CREW

Chiwetel Ejiofor Idris Elba John Hawkes Carla Gugino Cuba Gooding Jr. Ridley Scott

GENRE

Drama

CERTIFICATE

Contains strong violence and hard drug use

RUN TIME

2 hours 37 minutes

RELEASED

2007