American History X | |
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Directed by | Tony Kaye |
Written by | David McKenna |
Produced by | John Morrissey |
Starring | Edward Norton Edward Furlong Beverly D'Angelo Avery Brooks Stacy Keach Jennifer Lien Fairuza Balk Elliott Gould |
Cinematography | Tony Kaye |
Edited by | Gerald B. Greenberg Alan Heim |
Music by | Anne Dudley |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
Release date | October 23, 1998 |
Running time | 119 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $20 million |
Box office | $23,875,127 |
American History X is a 1998 American crime drama movie directed by Tony Kaye. It was released on October 23, 1998 in North America and received positive reviews, with an 83% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a 62/100 from Metacritic. Edward Norton was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor. The movie was named by Empire magazine as the 311th Greatest Movie of All Time. It is about a man who joins a neo-nazi gang, after his firefighter father is killed by black drug dealers in Venice, Los Angeles. While staying in prison for three years, his younger brother ends up facing the wrong path.