American Hustle (2013) (original) (raw)
A fictional film set in the seductive world of one of the most stunning scandals to rock our nation, American Hustle tells the story of brilliant con man Irving Rosenfeld, who along with his equally cunning British partner and lover Sydney Prosser is forced to work for a wild unhinged FBI agent Richie DiMaso. DiMaso pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and mafia that's as dangerous as it is enchanting. Renner is Carmen Polito, the passionate, volatile, New Jersey political operator caught between the con-artists and Feds. Irving's unpredictable wife Rosalyn could be the one to pull ...(more)
A fictional film set in the seductive world of one of the most stunning scandals to rock our nation, American Hustle tells the story of brilliant con man Irving Rosenfeld, who along with his equally cunning British partner and lover Sydney Prosser is forced to work for a wild unhinged FBI agent Richie DiMaso. DiMaso pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and mafia that's as dangerous as it is enchanting. Renner is Carmen Polito, the passionate, volatile, New Jersey political operator caught between the con-artists and Feds. Irving's unpredictable wife Rosalyn could be the one to pull the thread that brings the entire world crashing down. (less)
Director: David O. Russell
Writers: Eric Warren Singer, David O. Russell
Starring: Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper, Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Jennifer Lawrence, Louis C.K.
Producer: Charles Roven
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| Nominee | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Academy Awards | Best Picture | 2013 | |
| Academy Awards | Best Director | David O. Russell | 2013 |
| Academy Awards | Best Actor | Christian Bale | 2013 |
| Academy Awards | Best Actress | Amy Adams | 2013 |
| Academy Awards | Best Supporting Actor | Bradley Cooper | 2013 |
| Academy Awards | Best Supporting Actress | Jennifer Lawrence | 2013 |
| Academy Awards | Best Original Screenplay | Eric Warren Singer | 2013 |
| Academy Awards | Best Original Screenplay | David O. Russell | 2013 |
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Review by Brian Orndorf, December 19, 2013
8 / 10
Somewhere underneath all the hair and costumes is a fine motion picture called �American Hustle.� It�s a period piece sampling from the style and discomfort of the 1970s, and it�s the latest from writer/director David O. Russell, a helmer currently on a tear with the back-to-back successes of �The Fighter� and �Silver Linings Playbook.� That momentum is halted a bit by �American Hustle,� but the movie remains an evocative, churning inspection of responsibility and deception, only communicated in a Russellian cinematic language that takes some time to get used to. A bizarrely still, tortured ca ...read more...
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