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David O. Russell was honored with a Career Tribute at the Gotham Independent Film Awards

David O. Russell

David Russell was born in New York City, New York, the son of Maria (née Muzio) and Bernard Russell, who was a sales executive for Simon & Schuster. His father was from a Russian Jewish family, while his mother was Italian American and Catholic. He was raised in an atheist household.

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American Hustle

A fictional film set in the alluring world of one of the most extraordinary scandals of the 1970s, American Hustle tells the story of brilliant con man Irving Rosenfeld (Christian Bale), who along with his equally cunning and seductive partner Sydney Prosser (Amy Adams) is forced to work for a wild FBI agent

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At Middleton

A light-hearted romance for adults on the surface, At Middleton starring Andy Garcia and Vera Farmiga is a deeply moving portrait of roads not taken and the timelessness of youth. Taissa Farmiga, Spencer Lofranco, Peter Riegert, and Tom Skerritt also star in this story about what can happen on your first day of college – no matter who you are.

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The Legend of Hercules

In the epic origin story The Legend of Hercules, Kellan Lutz stars as the mythical Greek hero – the son of Zeus, a half‐god, half‐man blessed with extraordinary strength. Betrayed by his stepfather, the King, and exiled and sold into slavery because of a forbidden love, Hercules must use his formidable powers to fight his way back to his rightful kingdom.

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47 Ronin

Keanu Reeves leads an all-star international cast in the action-adventure 47 Ronin. After a treacherous warlord kills their master and banishes their kind, 47 leaderless samurai vow to seek vengeance and restore honor to their people.

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Walking with Dinosaurs

For the first time in movie history, audiences will truly see and feel what it was like when dinosaurs ruled the Earth. WALKING WITH DINOSAURS is the ultimate immersive, big-screen adventure for families. You’ll meet dinosaurs more real than you’ve ever seen as you embark on a thrilling prehistoric journey, where Patchi, an underdog dino, triumphs against all odds to become a hero for the ages.

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Tyler Perry’s A Madea Christmas

While Madea is all bluster and attitude, the film’s core drama occurs between Eileen, played by Anna Maria Horsford, and Lacy, played by Tika Sumpter. These two characters represent a shifting generational divide with strongly differing values and views of race relations.

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Lone Survivor

Based on The New York Times bestselling true story of heroism, courage and resilience, Lone Survivor tells the incredible tale of four Navy SEALs on a covert mission to neutralize a high-level al-Qaeda operative who are ambushed by the enemy in the mountains of Afghanistan.

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Oldboy

Spike Lee’s Oldboy kicks off with the unfathomable experience of Joe Doucett (Josh Brolin) a downward-spiraling advertising executive and absent father who, one drunken night, is kidnapped out of the blue and placed into a mind-numbing solitary confinement within a bizarre, hotel-like prison for the next 20 years

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The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire follows on the heels of 2012’s blockbuster cinematic success, The Hunger Games – and takes the worldwide phenomenon sparked by Suzanne Collins’ best-selling books into a new chapter that deepens the story and propels it forward. Critically acclaimed, the first film introduced audiences to the intriguing dystopian culture of Panem.

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Out of the Furnace

Russell Baze, the stalwart steel worker at the center of acclaimed writer and director Scott Cooper’s new film, Out of the Furnace, plies a dying trade in an almost forgotten town, holding tight to traditional values like family, friendship and honor. Academy Award® winner Christian Bale plays Russell.

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