Good Con Movie

Rating: 7/10 (20 December 2013)

I saw "American Hustle", starring Christian Bale-Batman in the Dark Knight movies, Newsies; Jennifer Lawrence-Katniss in the Hunger Games movies, Silver Linings Playbook; Bradley Cooper-Silver Linings Playbook, the Hangover Movies; Amy Adams-Lois Lane in Man of Steel, Enchanted and Jeremy Renner-Hawkeye in The Avengers-2012, 28 Weeks Later.
This movie is based on a real situation that happened in the late 1970's. The movie starts with Christian fixing his hair. He is overweight-I heard that he gained 40 to 50 pounds for the role-and he is balding, with longer hair on the sides of his head, which is what he is combing over to cover the bald spot-he is even using glue to keep it in place. Believe me, it is not a flattering scene but it does let you know a little about his character. He is a con artist. Amy is his partner and she uses a fake British accent to fool their 'marks'. Bradley plays an FBI agent that busts them and then decides to use them to get bigger fish. Jennifer plays Christian's loopy wife; she tricked Christian into marrying her and adopting her son, but she never leaves the house. She doesn't seem too bright, either but Christian stays because he loves the boy. Jeremy plays the mayor of New Jersey, the bigger fish of the FBI's take-down operation. There is a lot of good 1970's music, but FYI, Led Zeppelin's 'Good Times Bad Times' is not in the movie-it is used in some of the trailers. There is also a good cameo for a mob boss that shows up. It's rated "R" for language, violence and sexual content-no actual nudity-and has a running time of 2 hours & 18 minutes. I would probably buy this on DVD.