Win Tickets To An Advance For Screening For AMERICAN HUSTLE on Wednesday, December 18th at 7:00PM in San Jose. AMERICAN HUSTLE is an upcoming American crime drama film directed by David O. Russell, from a screenplay written by Eric Warren Singer and Russell based on the FBI ABSCAM operation of the late 1970s and early 1980s. It is scheduled to have a wide release on December 20, 2013 (limited release December 13) by Columbia Pictures. A brilliant con man, Irving Rosenfeld ( Christian Bale ), who along with his British partner and lover, but frightened amateur grifter, Sydney Prosser ( Amy Adams ), are recruited and forced to work for an FBI agent, Richie DiMaso ( Bradley Cooper ), who pushes them into the enchanting and dangerous world of Jersey powerbrokers and mafiosi. The operation eventually involves the Mayor of Camden, New Jersey, Carmine Polito ( Jeremy Renner ), who is caught between the con-artists and FBI, and whose wife, Rosalyn ( Jennifer Lawrence ) may destroy the