Film Preview: American Hustle

David O. Russell (the man behind The Fighter and Three Kings) is returning with this crime drama set in the late 1970's. He brings together an ensemble cast including Amy Adams, Christian Bale and Jeremy Renner whilst also reuniting with the stars of Silver Linings Playbook Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence and Robert De Niro. The original title for the film was American Bullshit on the original screenplay before it was picked up.

The filming didnt go completely smoothly as they were filming in Boston around the time of the bombings that took place during the marathon which shutdown production. Some of the actors visited victims in the local hospitals in the days before filming started again.

A brilliant con man, Irving Rosenfeld (Christian Bale), who along with his British partner and lover, but frightened newbie grifter, Sydney Prosser (Amy Adams), are recruited and forced to work for an FBI agent, Richie DiMaso (Bradley Cooper), who pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and mafia that is as dangerous as it is enchanting. The film revolves around FBI ABSCAM that took place around 1978 and was revealed on NBC in 1980 that the FBI had found the level of corruption had moved into Congress.

American Hustle is released in the UK on 20th December 2013.