American Hustle opens with the title card “Some of these things actually happened,” which serves to immediately clue the audience in on the ride they’re about to take. The film is an entertaining, glitzy, glossing over of “real events”; a tongue in cheek play on the biopic, and in some ways a reflection on the idea that all truth is relative. It’s like Stephen Colbert’s whimsically satiric truthiness come to life on the silver screen. American Hustle dances around the heart of its characters, the truth of the matter, with propulsive disco abandon, but never really lands on it. Perhaps that’s the point.
Based loosely on the bizarre Abscam FBI sting operation in which seven members of Congress were caught on tape accepting bribes, the film follows Irving Rosenfeld (Christian Bale) who runs a legitimate dry cleaning business by day and is a small time con man by…other parts of his day. When Irving meets the vibrant, and by her own description “fearless,” Sydney Prosser (Amy Adams) at a mutual friend’s pool party, he sees in her a kindred spirit; a woman who understands Duke Ellington.
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