The Young Americans

The Young Americans

No Honor. No Respect. No Remorse.

1993103 min5.7 / 10

A gritty crime thriller set in London's drug-fueled underworld, where a hardened detective pursues a ruthless American criminal through a morally compromised landscape.

Experienced New York Police Detective John Harris is sent to London to help a local task force investigate a series of gangster killings organized by a new player in town, an American. With the help of a young teen wronged by gangsters, Harris navigates London's seedy, drug-fuelled underworld in order to take down its new criminal empire.

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