Surprise! Hustlers is a major Oscars contender, & we give it the OSP treatment including an Oscar Lens for JLO, the screenplay, editing, cinematography, & more. We also have fun going back to the 2000’s with the soundtrack & the story. Getting the Awkward Out - Top of Show What is an Oscar Sprint Profile? - 2:26 NONSPOILER SECTION: Production Profile (Cast/Crew/Specs) - 3:11 Plot Premise/Expectations - 11:43 Production Values - 13:54 Performances: (JLo, Oscar Nom? - 21:56) (Well Rounded Patrons - 25:47) (Constance Wu’s Career Decisions - 26:25) (Rest of Cast - 27:17) Script Thoughts - 28:57 (And The Job of the Music - 29:47) How Many Nominations Does This Get?/Watch or Not? - 33:32 SPOILER WARNING DANCE PARTY - 34:44 SPOILER-FILLED REVIEW: Starting at the End - 35:55 The Intensity of Motherhood - 41:11 A Well Written Destiny - 46:34 Highlights and Best Scenes - 50:16 (Including Actual Praise for Narration! - 55:26) Disagreements, Worsts, Lowlights - 1:01:36 FINAL GRADE - 1:04:58 Your Homework/PLEASE LEAVE US 5*’S - 1:08:54 What’s Next From MMO/Words of Wisdom - 1:09:49 This is the 15th episode and 12th film covered in our Oscar Sprint Profile series. You can find that playlist including Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, The Farewell, Apollo 11, etc. We also just added to it last week with our review of Downton Abbey, and we will continue the playlist shortly with a review of Ad Astra for your weekend. We give Hustlers the full deep dive movie review treatment with non-spoiler and spoiler sections in this episode. There’s a particularly wild opening for this one before we fuse all of the behind the scenes production nuggets, casting stories, and specs into one cohesive presentation. Then we review the production values, performances, & script through an Oscar Lens on how we think the movie will fare come awards season. You get a spoiler warning dance interlude, and we dive into the plot including analysis on Jennifer’s Oscar reel scenes, the major themes & plotlines, and all the many bests & few worsts in Lorene Scafaria’s Hustlers. We conclude the non-spoiler segment with a recommendation to go out and watch this movie, and we finish our spoiler section with some final grades. If you enjoy our show, please take a few moments to give us 5 stars on Apple Podcasts. All you need to do is click on our icon in your iTunes, scroll down a few seconds and then you’ll see the 5 star option. As always, we thank you for your support. Let us know what you thought of Hustlers. We’re at MMandOscar on Twitter, and we are on Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, and Gmail. You can subscribe / rate / review / like / share / & listen to us on iTunes, Soundcloud, Stitcher, Google Play, Tune In, Spotify, and just about wherever you listen to podcasts. When reality sucks, keep watching movies with us. We’re Mike, Mike, & Oscar!