Loosely based on the criminal career of Frank Lucas, a gangster from La Grange, North Carolina, who smuggled heroin into the United States on American service planes returning from the Vietnam War, before being detained by a task force led by Newark Detective Richie Roberts.

• Film Rites
• Imagine Entertainment
• Denzel Washington
• Russell Crowe
• Josh Brolin
• Chiwetel Ejiofor
• Cuba Gooding Jr.
• Lymari Nadal
• Ted Levine
• Armand Assante