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American Hustle (2013)

★ 6.9 · 7,715 ratings on TMDB

Everyone hustles to survive.

American Hustle poster★ 6.9

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.

DirectorDavid O. Russell
CastAlessandro Nivola, Amy Adams, Bradley Cooper, Christian Bale, Jack Huston, Jennifer Lawrence
GenresCrime, Drama
The emergence reading

American Hustle keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same rung, same subject

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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