American Hustle is an upcoming crime drama film directed by David O. Russell, from a screenplay written by Eric Warren Singer and Russell based on the FBI ABSCAM operation of the late 1970s and early 1980s. It is scheduled to be released on December 18, 2013 (in limited release December 13, 2013) by Annapurna Pictures. It was filmed in Boston and Worcester, Massachusetts, and New York City, United States.