Assertion: black gangster | /r/HasProperty | frank lucas
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text: Denzel Washington plays a black gangster (Frank Lucas) who runs Harlem's early 1970s drug trade by cutting out the middle men and getting his supply straight from the source in Southeast Asia; the supply is brought to America in the coffins of American soldiers killed in Vietnam; Frank Lucas' particular brand of heroin, “Blue Magic,” is “twice as good for half as much” as his competitors'; Lucas' business, operated by his family, whom he has brought up from North Carolina for just that purpose, is “above the mob,” though he eventually has to make peace with the mob by cutting them in on some of his business; Russell Crowe plays an honest cop (Richie Roberts) in a sea of law-enforcement corruption (the most corrupt cop being the slick Trupo, played by Josh Brolin) who eventually brings Frank Lucas down.