'USA Today' Shows Off Christian Bale, Amy Adams and Bradley Cooper's '70s and '80s 'American Hustle' Looks

If you're David O. Russell and you've directed The Fighter and Silver Linings Playbook to a huge amount of critical and Oscar acclaim, what do you do next? Well, if you're Russell, you pull together key parts of the casts from those films and drop them into American Hustle, a movie set in the 1970s and 1980s. On Monday, USA Today debuted a few pics from the movie featuring Christian Bale, Amy Adams and Bradley Cooper. From USA Today:

Christian Bale stars as Irving Rosenfeld, a brilliant Bronx con-man whose specialization in stolen art catches the attention of unhinged FBI agent Richie DiMaso (Bradley Cooper). (Those tight curls are "not a perm, just for the record," says Russell, noting Cooper's character emulates a style popularized by '70s professional baseball players.) 

DiMaso forces Irving and his British lover/accomplice Sydney (Amy Adams) into a web of New Jersey power brokers and the Mafia. Jennifer Lawrence is on hand as Irving's loose cannon of a Long Island house wife, Rosalyn, who threatens the entire operation. "Everybody gets to do something we've never seen before," says Russell. "That's exciting to me."

Yes, Cooper is rocking a hair style very close to a perm for American Hustle.

The movie hits theaters on Dec. 13. In addition to Bale, Adams and Cooper, American Hustle stars Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro, Jeremy Renner, Louis CK and Michael Pena. Head past the jump to check out two news pics from the film.