Hoodlum (film)

Hoodlum
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Bill Duke
Written by	Chris Brancato
Produced by	Frank Mancuso Jr.
Starring	Laurence Fishburne Tim Roth Vanessa Williams Andy García Cicely Tyson Chi McBride Richard Bradford Clarence Williams III
Cinematography	Frank Tidy
Edited by	Harry Keramidas
Music by	Elmer Bernstein
Production companies	United Artists Frank Mancuso Jr. Productions
Distributed by	MGM Distribution Co.
Release date	August 27, 1997 (1997-08-27)
Running time	130 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$30 million[1]
Box office	$23,461,013 (US)

Hoodlum is a 1997 American crime drama film that gives a fictionalized account of the gang war between the Italian/Jewish mafia alliance and the black gangsters of Harlem that took place in the late 1920s and early 1930s. The film concentrates on Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson (Laurence Fishburne), Dutch Schultz (Tim Roth), and Lucky Luciano (Andy García).^[2]