American Hustle is a bona fide Best Picture Oscar contender. See it for yourself. See Christian Bale's transformation into overweight combover person, Irvin Feldstein, conman, hustler extraordinare. He is in love with beautiful women supplied to us by Amy Adams and a remarkable performance by Jennifer Lawrence. She is charming as Feldstein's clueless wife.
If the acting is not enough, there are plenty of laughs supplied by circumstances involving ace comedic actor, Bradley Cooper. He is a self absorbed FBI agent who falls for Amy Adams" Lady Greensley.
Loosely based on seventies FBI sting known in the media as ABSCAM, the script makes it seem like the FBI got it wrong in as many ways as possible, and still got some high level Congressional convictions.
Did I mention the great soundtrack put together by award winner, Danny Elfman. There is nothing like fine pop music from the seventies cleaned up by twenty-first century technology. See this movie at your favorite cinema, then buy it on DVD when it is released. Five stars!
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