by Gina Mastrangelo

'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 Italian-American FBI agent Richie DiMaso (Bradley Cooper).

DiMaso pushes them into a world of New Jersey powerbrokers and mafia that's as dangerous as it is enchanting. Jeremy Renner is Carmine Polito, a big, open-hearted Italian mayor of a New Jersey community, who is caught between the con-artists and Feds.

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Fonte: The Italian American Journal