Updated On: 18 January, 2014 08:00 AM IST | | Mihir Fadnavis
<p>After a string of quirky edgy comedy drama hits like Flirting With Disaster and Three Kings, David O Russell underwent a career dip</p>

American Hustle
A: Comedy-Drama
Dir: David O Russell
Cast: Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper, Jeremy Renner
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After a string of quirky edgy comedy drama hits like Flirting With Disaster and Three Kings, David O Russell underwent a career dip. I Heart Huckabees was still critically well-received, but was nowhere near the cult status of his earlier movies. The Fighter sort of rebooted his career and last year’s Oscar for Silver Linings Playbook has given him some sort of a wonderful adrenaline shot.