--- title: 'American Hustle (2013)' type: 'film' director: 'David O. Russell' released: '2013-12-13' runtime_minutes: 138 certification: 'R' genres: - 'Drama' - 'Comedy' - 'Crime' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/american-hustle-2013' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1800241/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # American Hustle (2013) 2013 · R · 138 min · Drama, Comedy, Crime · United States ## Synopsis American Hustle is a 2013 American black comedy crime film directed by David O. Russell. It was written by Eric Warren Singer and Russell and inspired by the FBI Abscam operation of the late 1970s and early 1980s. It stars Christian Bale and Amy Adams as two con artists forced by an FBI agent to set up an elaborate sting operation on corrupt politicians, including the mayor of Camden, New Jersey. Jennifer Lawrence plays the unpredictable wife of Bale's character. Principal photography took place from March to May 2013 in Boston and Worcester, Massachusetts, as well as New York City. ## Credits - **Director:** [David O. Russell](https://cinepixo.com/people/david-o-russell) - **Screenplay:** [David O. Russell](https://cinepixo.com/people/david-o-russell), [Eric Warren Singer](https://cinepixo.com/people/eric-warren-singer) - **Original Music Composer:** [Danny Elfman](https://cinepixo.com/people/danny-elfman) - **Producer:** [Megan Ellison](https://cinepixo.com/people/megan-ellison), [Charles Roven](https://cinepixo.com/people/charles-roven), [Jonathan Gordon](https://cinepixo.com/people/jonathan-gordon), [Richard Suckle](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-suckle) - **Director of Photography:** [Linus Sandgren](https://cinepixo.com/people/linus-sandgren) - **Editor:** [Kevin Tent](https://cinepixo.com/people/kevin-tent), [Jay Cassidy](https://cinepixo.com/people/jay-cassidy), [Alan Baumgarten](https://cinepixo.com/people/alan-baumgarten) ## Cast - [Jack Huston](https://cinepixo.com/people/jack-huston) as Pete Musane - [Jeremy Renner](https://cinepixo.com/people/jeremy-renner) as Angelo Errichetti - [Robert De Niro](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-de-niro) as Victor Tellegio - [Paul Herman](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-herman) as Alfonse Simone - [Amy Adams](https://cinepixo.com/people/amy-adams) as Evelyn Knight - [Saïd Taghmaoui](https://cinepixo.com/people/said-taghmaoui) as Irv's Sheik Plant - [Bradley Cooper](https://cinepixo.com/people/bradley-cooper) as Richie DiMaso - [Anthony Zerbe](https://cinepixo.com/people/anthony-zerbe) - [Michael Peña](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-pena) as Paco Hernandez / Sheikh Abdullah - [Adrian Martinez](https://cinepixo.com/people/adrian-martinez) as Julius - [Christian Bale](https://cinepixo.com/people/christian-bale) as Mel Weinberg - [Alessandro Nivola](https://cinepixo.com/people/alessandro-nivola) as Anthony Amado - [Colleen Camp](https://cinepixo.com/people/colleen-camp) as Brenda - [Jennifer Lawrence](https://cinepixo.com/people/jennifer-lawrence) as Rosalyn Rosenfeld - [Zachariah Supka](https://cinepixo.com/people/zachariah-supka) as Mel Weinberg ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/american-hustle-2013 Film facts: Wikidata (Q9013673); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.