With 10 Oscar awards nominations, including best film, script, director and actors, is now available on the platform.
The platform of Netflix It was one of the first platforms to break the ways of consuming series and films. And manages to remain in force thanks to his constant renewal and eye to find the most relevant and sought by the public.
Recently, he added to his catalog, one of the best American films, which casually did not win any Oscar award to which he was nominated, but golden balloons. It is about The great American scambased on the ABSCAM operation of the FBI, directed by David O. Russell and starring Christian Bale and Bradley Cooper.
The great American scam
What is the great American scam, the success of the last decade in Netflix
The movie is contextualized in the 1970s And it is based on the FBI Abscam Operation. It focuses on the murky Irving Rosenfeld entrepreneur, who is regulating several self -service laundries in New York in a totally legal way, but whose main sources of income are absolutely illegal.
The protagonist, along with his partner and lover Sydney Prosser, sells false works of art and disappoints people who are in extreme economic difficulties charging them high commissions for supposedly to arrange a loan. When an ambitious FBI agent discovers his methodology, he extortes him by offering him to the politician Carmine Polito as corrupt, to free himself from legal obligations.
Netflix: Trailer of the great American scam
Netflix: cast of the great American scam
- Bradley Cooper (Richard agent)
- Christian Bale (Irving Rosenfeld)
- Jennifer Lawrence (Rosalyn Rosenfeld)
- Jeremy Renner (Carmine Polito)
- Louis CK (Stoddart Thorsen)
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