A con man, Irving Rosenfeld, along with his seductive partner Sydney Prosser, is forced to work for a wild F.B.I. Agent, Richie DiMaso, who pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers an... Read allA con man, Irving Rosenfeld, along with his seductive partner Sydney Prosser, is forced to work for a wild F.B.I. Agent, Richie DiMaso, who pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and the Mafia.A con man, Irving Rosenfeld, along with his seductive partner Sydney Prosser, is forced to work for a wild F.B.I. Agent, Richie DiMaso, who pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and the Mafia.
- Nominated for 10 Oscars
- 70 wins & 227 nominations total
Elisabeth Röhm
- Dolly Polito
- (as Elisabeth Rohm)
Saïd Taghmaoui
- Irv's Sheik Plant
- (as Said Taghmaoui)
- Director
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- TriviaAccording to Christian Bale, much of the movie was improvised. So during the shooting of the film, he noted to writer and director David O. Russell, "You realize that this is going to change the plot greatly down track." To which Russell replied, "Christian, I hate plots. I am all about characters, that's it."
- GoofsThe book that inspired Rosalyn, "Power of Intention" by Wayne Dyer was written in 2004.
- Quotes
Sydney Prosser: You're nothing to me until you're everything.
- Crazy creditsAn opening title card states, "Some of this actually happened."
- Alternate versionsThe leaked Academy Awards DVDSCR had the following differences.
- A line of alternate dialogue in a voice over.
- A few digitally altered shots.
- The scene where Irving and his wife arguing has been trimmed.
- The scene immediately following that scene with Irving in the car is shorter as well.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Tonight Show with Jay Leno: Episode #22.55 (2014)
- SoundtracksJeep's Blues
Written by Duke Ellington & Johnny Hodges
Performed by Duke Ellington
Courtesy of Columbia Records
By arrangement with Sony Music Licensing
Featured review
Starts slow and gets better and better
I'd heard mixed responses about this film over the years so I had to finally give it a watch. And I'm sorry to anyone that hates this film, but I really enjoyed this one!
The first half an hour or so is quite bland I'll be honest. No obvious direction for the film to go in, I wasn't too sold on any of the characters and just generally the pace was really slow.
But the film massively picks up and it just gets better and better and more interesting with every minute that passes. The ending I thought was fantastic, it ended all the characters arc's amazingly well and had a brilliant twist involved which I didn't see coming.
The standout for me is the acting. When I saw the pretty extravagant cast lineup I was skeptical. Usually films that go all in with cast typically don't do too well. So when I saw Bale, Adams, DeNiro, Renner, Lawrence, Cooper and CK and more I was thinking just that. But this doesn't fall into that category at all! Acting from everyone was superb and a real standout, really added so much more to the characters. Just a great job overall.
But yeah, overall it's a fun, interesting watch with a little touch of subtle humour added which is always nice. 8/10 from me, would recommend.
The first half an hour or so is quite bland I'll be honest. No obvious direction for the film to go in, I wasn't too sold on any of the characters and just generally the pace was really slow.
But the film massively picks up and it just gets better and better and more interesting with every minute that passes. The ending I thought was fantastic, it ended all the characters arc's amazingly well and had a brilliant twist involved which I didn't see coming.
The standout for me is the acting. When I saw the pretty extravagant cast lineup I was skeptical. Usually films that go all in with cast typically don't do too well. So when I saw Bale, Adams, DeNiro, Renner, Lawrence, Cooper and CK and more I was thinking just that. But this doesn't fall into that category at all! Acting from everyone was superb and a real standout, really added so much more to the characters. Just a great job overall.
But yeah, overall it's a fun, interesting watch with a little touch of subtle humour added which is always nice. 8/10 from me, would recommend.
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- Release date
- Countries of origin
- Official sites
- Languages
- Also known as
- Escándalo americano
- Filming locations
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA(as Philadelphia)
- Production companies
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Box office
- Budget
- $40,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $150,117,807
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $740,455
- Dec 15, 2013
- Gross worldwide
- $251,171,807
- Runtime2 hours 18 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
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