It follows a crew of New York City strippers who begin to steal money by drugging stock traders and CEOs who visit their club, then running up their credit cards. First announced in February , the film was originally set to be financed and distributed by Annapurna Pictures. However, amid financial trouble, Annapurna dropped the rights in October Hustlers had its world premiere on September 7, , at the Toronto International Film Festival , and was theatrically released in the United States on September 13, In , Elizabeth, a journalist, is working on a story involving former New York City-based stripper Dorothy, known as Destiny, and Destiny's former friend and mentor, Ramona Vega.
Bert: You got talent. There are only a handful of movie characters so real that the audience refers to them as touchstones. Fast Eddie Felson is one of them.
W hen you teach about racial inequality for a living, as I do, you have a before-and-after story. The story broadly goes that before the Civil Rights Act of , racial inequality was legal and normative. After the Civil Rights Act, racial inequality is illegal but normative. We move forward, then get pushed back, forward, back.