‘American Hustle’: Exclusive Photos, Interviews with Amy Adams, David O. Russell, More

A special screening of ‘American Hustle’ (in NY and LA theaters today, everywhere Dec. 20) was held at the Directors Guild of America’s headquarters in Beverly Hills and Desde Hollywood was there to talk to the stars and filmmakers: Amy Adams, David O. Russell, producer Charles Roven and more.

“A fictional film set in the alluring world of one of the most stunning scandals to rock the States, American Hustle tells the story of brilliant con man Irving Rosenfeld (Christian Bale), who along with his equally cunning and seductive British partner Sydney Prosser (Amy Adams) is forced to work for a wild FBI agent Richie DiMaso (Bradley Cooper). DiMaso pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and mafia that’s as dangerous as it is enchanting. Jeremy Renner is Carmine Polito, the passionate, volatile, New Jersey political operator caught between the con-artists and Feds. Irving’s unpredictable wife Rosalyn (Jennifer Lawrence) could be the one to pull the thread that brings the entire world crashing down. Like David O. Russell’s previous films, American Hustle defies genre, hinging on raw emotion, and life and death stakes”