By Amy Renner Nov. 12, 2005
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Sin City
"Sin City" stars Bruce Willis as Hartigan, a cop with a bum ticker and a vow to protect stripper Nancy (Jessica Alba); Mickey Rourke as Marv, the outcast misanthrope on a mission to avenge the death of his one true love, Goldie (Jaime King), and Clive Owen as Dwight, the clandestine love of Shelley (Brittany Murphy), who spends his nights defending Gail (Rosario Dawson) and her Old Towne girls (Devon Aoki and Alexis Bledel) from Jackie Boy (Benicio Del Toro), a dirty cop with a penchant for violence.
Christopher Walken, Josh Hartnett, Mickey Rourke, Carla Gugino, Jaime King, Rosario Dawson, Nick Stahl, Michael Clarke Duncan, Elijah Wood, Jessica Alba, Bruce Willis, Michael Douglas, Clive Owen, Kate Bosworth, Makenzie Vega, Bob Weinstein, Steve Buscemi, Marley Shelton, Maria Bello, Brittany Murphy, Benicio Del Toro, Rick Gomez, Jason Douglas, Katherine Willis, Harvey Weinstein, Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez, Elizabeth Avellan, Andrew Rona, Brad Weston
American Gangster
Based on the life of drug-kingpin-turned-informant, Frank Lucas, who grew up in segregated North Carolina where he watched as his cousin was shot by the Klan for looking at a white girl. He eventually made his way to Harlem where he became a heroin kingpin by traveling to Asia's Golden Triangle to make connections, shipping heroin back to the US in the coffins of soldiers killed in Vietnam. He soon made upwards of one million dollars a day in drug sales. Lucas was shadowed by lawman, Richie Roberts, who finally helped bring the kingpin to justice. The two then worked together to expose the crooked cops and foreign nationals who made importing heroin so easy.