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American Hustle - Official Trailer - In Theaters December 20th

American Hustle(2013)
Released
2013 · FILM

American Hustle

Con artist Irving Rosenfeld must outwit a relentless FBI agent and his volatile wife to pull off one final, high‑stakes scam with partner Sydney Prosser before their deceptions implode.

“Everyone hustles to survive.”

Directed by
David O Russell, Jason Fesel
Written by
Eric Warren Singer, David O Russell
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
138 min
CrimeDrama

Synopsis

A conman and his seductive partner are forced to work for a wild FBI agent, who pushes them into a world of Jersey power-brokers and the Mafia.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 912+ credited

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Alan BaumgartenShot by Linus SandgrenScored by Danny ElfmanDesigned by Judy BeckerSound by Myron NettingaCostumes by Michael WilkinsonStunts by Ben Hernandez BrayVFX by Sean Devereaux

Box Office

2013 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 6.3× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$251.2M

Budget$40.0M
Worldwide gross$251.2M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $150.1M — 60% of worldwide · International: $101.1M (40%)

Opening weekend: $740K — 0% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $1.1M — 1% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 6 theaters

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Also known as

  • American Hustlede
  • American Bullshiten
  • American Blufffr
  • American Hustle - L'apparenza ingannait

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