“Some of this actually happened,” a title card cheekily informs us at the beginning of David O. Russell’s crime comedy American Hustle, and so begins a wild and most entertaining tale of duplicity and deceit -- a movie that recalls the Coen brothers’ Fargo and Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas in its crackling energy, the freedom it feels to embroider...read more
Dec 14, 2014 1:52 PM EST
Jennifer Lawrence and Amy Adams may have earned Oscar nominations for their roles in 2012's American Hustle, but their paychecks on the film still came up short. Lawrence and Amy Adams were paid less than their male co-stars and d… Read more
A con man and his alluring partner are recruited by an FBI agent to infiltrate the treacherous world where New Jersey's politics and the mob intersect. However, it's never quite clear who is the swindler and who is the mark.
A con man and his alluring partner are recruited by an FBI agent to infiltrate the treacherous world where New Jersey's politics and the mob intersect. However, it's never quite clear who is the swindler and who is the mark.
