The Hustle

Two female scam artists, one low rent and the other high class, compete to swindle a naïve tech prodigy out of his fortune. A remake of the 1988 comedy “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.”

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Film Cast:

  • Josephine Chesterfield: Anne Hathaway
  • Penny Rust: Rebel Wilson
  • Thomas Westerburg: Alex Sharp
  • Brigitte Desjardins: Ingrid Oliver
  • Shiraz: Hannah Waddingham
  • Albert: Nicholas Woodeson
  • Jeremy: Timothy Simons
  • Jason: Douggie McMeekin
  • Policewoman: Ashley McGuire
  • Mathias: Casper Christensen
  • Beautiful Woman (Casino): Eloise Lovell Anderson
  • Dealer: Philip Desmeules
  • Bartender: Jarreau Antoine
  • Cashier: Celine Abrahams
  • Fancy Euro: Raffaello Degruttola
  • Waiter: Alex Gaumond
  • Train Attendant: Guy Warren-Thomas
  • French Rapper: Tom Moutchi
  • Gregor Gregorsky: John Hales
  • Flight Attendant: Alice Fofana
  • Howard Bacon: Dean Norris
  • Enrique Escalera: Francisco Labbe
  • Amir: Aaron Neil
  • Three Piece Suit Man: Martin Bishop
  • Bell Hop: Guy Remy
  • Hotel Pool Attendant: Joe Manjón
  • Guillaume: Bruno Sevilla
  • Roulette Croupier: Meena Rayann
  • Man with Pipe: William Brand
  • Chloe: Rebekah Staton
  • Other Chloe: Jocelyn Jee Esien
  • Room Service Waiter: Christophe de Choisy
  • Cathy: Emma Davies
  • Police Sergeant: Margaret Cabourn-Smith
  • Police Officer: Anwar Lynch
  • Todd: Rob Delaney
  • Disco DJ: Alphonso Austin
  • Business Traveller: Deepak Anand
  • Dancer (uncredited): Sarah-Stephanie
  • Casino Barman: Deano Bugatti
  • Investor: Kumud Pant
  • …: Jeremy Antonio Oliver
  • …: Sam Lilja
  • Hotel Valet (uncredited): John Akanmu

Film Crew:

  • Original Music Composer: Anne Dudley
  • Executive Producer: Charles Hirschhorn
  • Producer: Roger Birnbaum
  • Director of Photography: Michael Coulter
  • Story: Dale Launer
  • Executive Producer: Ilona Herzberg
  • Executive Producer: Alison Owen
  • Production Design: Alice Normington
  • Original Film Writer: Stanley Shapiro
  • Original Film Writer: Paul Henning
  • Set Decoration: Sophie Phillips
  • Director: Chris Addison
  • Screenplay: Jac Schaeffer
  • Post Production Supervisor: Michael Solinger
  • Producer: Rebel Wilson
  • Casting: Theo Park
  • Concept Artist: Elo Soode
  • Production Manager: Carlos Ruiz Boceta
  • Co-Producer: Suzie Shearer
  • Costume Design: Emma Fryer
  • Unit Production Manager: Robert Huberman
  • Post Production Supervisor: Rebecca Adams
  • Editor: Anthony Boys
  • Post Production Assistant: Kacie Kane
  • First Assistant Director: Mark Goddard
  • Additional Second Assistant Director: Gareth Webb
  • Executive Producer: Trent Walton
  • Third Assistant Director: Paul Hayes
  • Production Supervisor: Tom Forbes
  • Third Assistant Director: Eman Kazemi
  • First Assistant Director: Ángel Lafuente
  • Additional Third Assistant Director: Matt Bensley
  • Key Production Assistant: Sallie Hard
  • Post Production Assistant: Romy Barber
  • Third Assistant Director: Cristina Amengual Watson
  • Second Assistant Director: Anna Maluenda
  • Second Assistant Director: Christian Otty
  • Floor Runner: Andrea Trigo
  • Stunt Double: Katie McDonnell
  • Stand In: Lucy Scarfe

Movie Reviews:

  • Gimly: Normally, I really like Anne Hathaway. **Especially** recently. But not only did I think The Hustle was pretty bad, even she specifically was pretty bad in it.
  • _Final rating:★★ – Had some things that appeal to me, but a poor finished product._
  • JPV852: Point by point remake of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and while I don’t hold that movie in as high regards compared to others, this spit in its face with offering absolutely nothing new with the comedy falling flat at every turn and worse yet, where Michael Caine and Steve Martin were great together, Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson shared no chemistry.
  • Since this movie did not deviate at all from Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, I found myself mostly bored and just waiting for it to end. Although I’ve seen worse, I was never angry or anything, just thinking what was the point?
  • CinemaSerf: A totally class-free remake of the var superior “Bedtime Story” (1964) that is both vulgar and crass. All it needed was a little bit of subtlety and it could have been quite a fun role-reversal caper; instead it is clumsy and cringe-makingly unsophisticated. No amount of glamorous location photography can make it any less so. I never leave the cinema half way through a film, but was sorely tempted with this nonsense.
  • GenerationofSwine: It’s pretty much a re-make of “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels” which was itself a remake, only this one isn’t as good.
  • It’s actually just “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels” that has been gender swapped and, like all of the gender swapped remakes of late, the humor, the plot, the entire story is wrapped around the fact that the gender has been swapped, and done so without an actual story or humor.
  • It’s basically a remake with women and the draw is intended to be that it has women in it this time rather than men… and that doesn’t work without a story or actual jokes with punchlines and timing, jokes that divert expectations… not jokes that are revolved around a swap in characters and nothing more.
  • Save your time, it’s just like Ghostbusters, What Men Want, Oceans 8 and all the other movies that have done the exact same thing and failed because they lacked an actual story and humor

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