Hustlers (2019)

Movie
German title	Hustlers
Original title	Hustlers
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	2019
length	111 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12 ; JMK 16
Rod
Director	Lorene Scafaria
script	Lorene Scafaria
production	Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas , ; Jennifer Lopez , ; Jessica Elbaum , ; Adam McKay , ; Will Ferrell , ; Benny Medina
camera	Todd Banhazl
cut	Kayla Emter
occupation
	Constance Wu : Dorothy "Destiny"; Jennifer Lopez : Ramona Vega; Julia Stiles : Elizabeth; Keke Palmer : Mercedes; Lili Reinhart : Annabelle; Lizzo : Liz; Cardi B : Diamond; Mercedes Ruehl : Mom; Trace Lysette : Tracey; Wai Ching Ho : Destiny's grandmother; Mette Towley : Justice; Madeline Brewer : Dawn; Steven Boyer : Doug;
synchronization

Hustlers is an American crime - drama film with elements of a black comedy from 2019 . Lorene Scafaria acted as director and screenwriter . The plot of the film contains elements taken from reality and is based on an article by the author Jessica Pressler published in New York magazine .

The film was first announced in February 2016 and was originally intended to be funded and distributed by Annapurna Pictures . However, due to financial difficulties, Annapurna waived the rights in October 2018. After being acquired by STX Entertainment , much of the cast joined the fall of the following spring, and filming took place in New York City from March to May 2019 . The producers included a. Jennifer Lopez (who also plays a leading role), Adam McKay and Will Ferrell .

Hustlers had its world premiere on September 7, 2019 at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival and was released in theaters in the United States on September 13, 2019. In Germany, the film was released on November 28, 2019. The film grossed over $ 157 million worldwide and received mixed to positive reviews from critics and audiences. The cost of production was $ 20.7 million.

action

In 2014, journalist Elizabeth was working on a story involving former New York stripper Dorothy, known as Destiny, and Destiny's former friend and mentor, Ramona Vega.

Seven years earlier, Destiny was working at Moves, a strip club to support her grandmother, but was barely able to make ends meet. Intrigued by Ramona's (another stripper) success and the money she makes, Destiny starts talking to her. Ramona agrees to take Destiny under her wing, and the two make a great team. Destiny enjoys her newfound wealth and has a deep friendship with Ramona. A year later, the financial crisis of 2007 strikes , and both women find themselves without work and lose contact with each other. During this time, Destiny becomes a single mother unable to find a new job.

With no other options, Destiny eventually returns to dancing. But the moves have changed: the financial crisis has affected the number of customers, and the club is mostly filled with dancers from Russia who are regularly willing to engage in sexual acts for money, a limit that Destiny also has in a moment despair exceeds. She gets in contact with Ramona again, who introduces her to her new strategy. Together with her two protégés, Mercedes and Annabelle, Ramona targets rich men in bars. On every outing, the women pretend to get drunk with the clients while they secretly feed the men a ketamine / MDMA mix; once they're drunk, they're escorted to Moves, where the crew have negotiated a fixed price discount based on how much they can withdraw from their target's credit card.

This is proving to be very lucrative and the women are enjoying their new source of wealth. However, other strippers are beginning to emulate their strategy of bringing clients to the club for a share. Furious, Ramona severed her relationship with Moves on the grounds that they could keep all of her earnings, and the group began serving customers in hotel rooms or at home. Mercedes and Annabelle no longer feel comfortable with this new practice and no longer appear reliably. Ramona therefore hires women with drug problems and criminal records and procures strangers as new customers because she burned her old club contacts against the advice of Destiny, which worries Destiny.

Destiny's fears come true when a customer Ramona has booked for Mercedes has a near fatal accident and she has to rush him to the hospital because Ramona could not be reached. It is revealed that Ramona was once again preoccupied with saving Dawn, a drug addicted recruit who Destiny finds sloppy and unreliable, from prison. Upon returning home, Destiny discovers that her grandmother, who she raised since childhood, has died. At the funeral, Ramona makes amends and promises to take care of Destiny from now on.

After that, the plot returns to 2014, when Destiny has a conversation with journalist Elizabeth. Destiny is uncomfortable and cuts off the interview when Elizabeth insists on talking about Ramona and why they ended their friendship. When Elizabeth returns home, Destiny calls to continue the conversation, remembering how her friendship with Ramona - and her crime ring - fell apart. She explains that Ramona's persistent numbness drove a wedge between the women and that Destiny could no longer justify her crimes. One of her final goals was Doug, who Destiny considered a really nice person. Doug is later able to convince the police to take his claim of robbery seriously because he has evidence of the group's crime, which resulted in Dawn being caught by the police and quickly volunteering to wear a bugging device to incriminate Destiny and Ramona. Investigators also managed to locate several other victims. Destiny, Ramona, Annabelle, and Mercedes are arrested, but only Destiny takes on a deal that doesn't mean she's serving a sentence for not wanting her daughter to grow up without a mother like she did. Ramona is sentenced to five years probation, while the others serve brief prison sentences on weekends before being paroled.

Some time later, Elizabeth receives a call from Destiny, who has read the published article, and asks her if Ramona ever said anything about her. Elizabeth reveals that she only interviewed Ramona once, explaining that after an incident, she began to keep her most prized possessions with her, including a cherished Destiny childhood photo. Ramona expresses that she never understood how Destiny's parents could have left her. At the end of her call, Elizabeth encourages Destiny to shake hands with Ramona.

synchronization

The German dubbing was done by Neue Tonfilm München based on the dialogue script and dialogue direction by Eva Schaaf .

role	actor	Voice actor
Ramona Vega	Jennifer Lopez	Natascha Geisler
Crystal	Georgia Ximenes Lifsher	Ilena Gwisdalla
Destiny	Constance Wu	Gabrielle Pietermann
Diamond	Cardi B	Kathrin Gaube
Elizabeth	Julia Stiles	Ranja Bonalana
Georgia	Ashley Neal	Janina Dietz
Mercedes	Keke Palmer	Lea Kalbhenn
Annabelle	Lili Reinhart	Farina Brock
Dawn	Madeline Brewer	Leslie-Vanessa Lill
mummy	Mercedes Ruehl	Angelika Bender
Destiny's grandmother	Wai Ching Ho	Marion Hartmann
Tracey	Trace Lysette	Jaqueline Belle

reception

Reviews

The film received mixed to good reviews. At Rotten Tomatoes , 87% of a total of 334 reviews are positive, with an average rating of 7.3 / 10. The audience ratings are 65% positive. In the Internet Movie Database , the film has an average rating of 6.3 / 10. Hustlers was voted one of the Best Movies of 2019 by Time Magazine , HuffPost , and the NPR . Jennifer Lopez's acting performance received special praise.

“Above all, it is the fun of reversals (and the thoroughly good cast, with hip-hop stars Lizzo and Cardi B as further components of the lively and solidary stripper community) that make the film a beautiful piece at heart Pop feminism remains, even if it increasingly declines narrative and another plot level with Julia Stiles as a researching journalist does not quite work out. The pole dance scene alone, with its erotic-subversive gaze arrangement, has to a certain extent canceled out such reservations in advance. "

- Till Kadritzke : derspiegel.de

"'Hustlers' is an entertaining, energetic character portrait of strong women who fight for their place in the hard streets of New York with finesse and violence - and a bang-bang comeback for Jennifer Lopez!"

- Carsten Baumgardt : filmstarts.de