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American Hustle
A conman and his seductive partner are forced to work for a wild FBI agent, who pushes them into a world of Jersey power-brokers and the Mafia.
2013 · Directed by David O. Russell · 138 min · Drama · Crime · Screenplay in the scene database · 16 frames
Tagline
Everyone hustles to survive.
Plot
In 1978, Irving Rosenfeld and Sydney Prosser work together as con artists. Sydney, posing as English aristocrat "Lady Edith Greensly", has improved the scams. Irving loves Sydney but is unwilling to leave his unstable, histrionic wife Rosalyn, fearing that he will lose contact with adopted son Danny. Rosalyn has also threatened to report Irving to the police if he leaves her.
FBI agent Richie DiMaso catches Irving and Sydney in a loan scam but offers to release them if Irving can line up four additional arrests. Richie believes that Sydney is English but has proof that her aristocratic claim is fraudulent. She tells Irving that she will manipulate Richie, which distances her from Irving.
Irving's friend pretends to be a wealthy Arab sheikh looking for potential investments in America. An associate of Irving's suggests that the sheikh do business with Mayor Carmine Polito of Camden, New Jersey, who is trying to revitalize gambling in Atlantic City but has struggled to find investors. Carmine seems to have a genuine desire to help the area's economy and his constituents.
Plot summary from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
Crew
- Written by: David O. Russell, Eric Warren Singer
- Cinematography: Linus Sandgren
- Edited by: Jay Cassidy, Crispin Struthers, Alan Baumgarten
- Music: Danny Elfman
- Production design: Judy Becker
- Produced by: Megan Ellison, Charles Roven, Richard Suckle, Jonathan Gordon
Cast
- Christian Bale as Irving Rosenfeld
- Bradley Cooper as Richie DiMaso
- Amy Adams as Sydney Prosser
- Jeremy Renner as Mayor Carmine Polito
- Jennifer Lawrence as Rosalyn Rosenfeld
- Louis C.K. as Stoddard Thorsen
- Jack Huston as Pete Musane
- Michael Peña as Paco Hernandez / Sheik Abdullah
- Shea Whigham as Carl Elway
- Alessandro Nivola as Anthony Amado
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Annapurna Pictures, Atlas Entertainment
- Budget: $40,000,000
- Box office: $251,171,807
- Themes: new jersey, 1970s, fbi, mayor, con artist, mobster, scam, hair, century, assertive
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