“One last time, everybody, let’s hear it for our girls!”

From Hustlers.

Desperate to make ends meet, stripper Destiny (Constance Wu) works long hours with little profit to help out her grandmother (Wai Ching Ho).  However, when she meets Ramona (Jennifer Lopez), all that changes as the veteran dancer takes Destiny under her wing.  Things are finally going well for Destiny, Ramona, and the other dancers at the club (including Mette Towley, Lizzo, and Cardi B), but the stock market crash of 2008 and Destiny’s unexpected pregnancy sends her world crashing down.  Left with no money and no other options, Destiny returns to the club and reconnects with Ramona who invites her to join a side hustle that she is running with fellow strippers Mercedes (Keke Palmer) and Annabelle (Lili Reinhart).  In order to bring more business into the club, the women will meet a man at a bar, drug them with a low dose of ketamine and MDMA, and then take them back to the club for a large cut of the credit card purchases.  Things are finally looking up again for Destiny and Ramona as they begin to work themselves out of debt and back into the lavish lifestyle they had before the crash, but as with any partnership things grow more and more strained between the two leaders.  While Destiny is focused on safety and not emptying their clientele, Ramona is focused on taking bigger risks and larger paydays, no matter the outcome.  As their world comes crashing down around them, their only hope for reconciliation might be a journalist (Julia Stiles) reporting on the unbelievable story of the hustlers.

Based on a true story, this story is a roller coaster of drama, laughter, and tears; this movie somehow manages to be equal parts gritty and glittery.  Lopez and Wu lead as fiercely different women who discover this only as everything unravels.  Since the movie follows the lives of several strippers, it is not really a family-friendly movie, but older viewers will appreciate being able to watch this unbelievable true story unfold.  Hustlers is definitely a unique movie with a story that is hard to forget.

| Rated: R | Running Time: 110 minutes |Genre: biography/comedy/drama |

||Family Viewing||Cursing: 7* of 10|Nudity: 6 of 10|Sexuality: 3 of 10|Gore: 0 of 10

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