A con man, Irving Rosenfeld, along with his seductive partner Sydney Prosser, is forced to work for a wild F.B.I. Agent, Richie DiMaso, who pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and the Mafia.
The infant that Jeremy Renner kisses on the hands while greeting people as the Mayor on the streets of Camden is a special cameo of Renner's newborn baby girl, Ava Berlin Renner, who was born during production. The woman holding Ava in the same scene is Ava's mother and Renner's girlfriend, Sonni Pacheco. David O. Russell asked Renner's mother to cameo in the scene as well, but she declined the offer. Sonni and Ava can be seen briefly in the movie, and in the first theatrical trailer for the film.
Richie DiMaso:
What are you doing, going behind my back? Telling people I'm screwing up this operation? I got you a suite at the fucking Plaza Hotel.
Irving Rosenfeld:
The shittiest suite at the Plaza Hotel.
When Irving gets into the safe to get his gun, the stacks of $100 bills are of the new type that was not put into circulation until the late-1990s.
There is no credit for Robert De Niro, but there is a credit for "Costumer to Mr. Tellegio".
The leaked Academy Awards DVDSCR had the following differences.
English, Arabic
$740,455 (USA) (15 December 2013)
$150,117,807 (USA)