American Hustle

2013 138 min ★ 6.9 Drama, Crime

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.

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Cast

Christian Bale

Irving Rosenfeld

Bradley Cooper

Richie DiMaso

Amy Adams

Sydney Prosser

Jeremy Renner

Mayor Carmine Polito

Jennifer Lawrence

Rosalyn Rosenfeld

Louis C.K.

Stoddard Thorsen

Jack Huston

Pete Musane

Michael Peña

Paco Hernandez / Sheik Abdullah

Shea Whigham

Carl Elway

Alessandro Nivola

Anthony Amado

Details

Director

David O. Russell

Tagline

"Everyone hustles to survive."

Status

Released

Original Language

EN

Budget

$40,000,000

Revenue

$251,171,807

Production

Annapurna Pictures, Atlas Entertainment

Reviews

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suprmed

January 1, 2014

Good

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DanDare

March 20, 2017

★ 6/10

American Hustle is has a heavy dose of Scorsese circa 1970s with the violence replaced more by black humour. Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Jennifer Lawrence, Jeremy Renner and Bradley Cooper all deliver excellent performances. Robert De Niro makes a cameo and reminds the audience why he was at one time the best screen actor in the world. This is a black comedy-drama set in the late 1970's based...

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stackkorora

December 22, 2019

★ 8/10

A very well acted, directed, filmed movie telling an interesting story about terrible terrible people. I didn't like and couldn't root for anyone which /almost/ made me hate the film, but it was so well done and the story was interesting...so 4 stars.

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CinemaSerf

January 8, 2023

★ 6/10

Christian Bale has always been prepared to go the extra mile for his art, but I am not sure it was worth it for this rather lengthy and messy crime caper. He portrays con-man "Irving" who works a series of scams with his glamorous British partner "Sydney" (Amy Adams). They are quite successful, until - that is - they fall foul of aspiring FBI investigator "DiMaso" (Bradley Cooper) who decides he c...