History Film / Hustlers

* CastShowOff: Star the stripper, who enters singing opera, is played by Marcy Richardson, an actual opera-singing pole dancer.

* ChristmasCake: Ramona alludes to this, saying she and Destiny won't be able to dance forever, and had better make their money before they're too old to be strippers.

* CoolOldLady: Destiny's grandmother is revealed to be, when she casually lets slip that she once danced with [[Music/FrankieValliAndTheFourSeasons Frankie Valli]]. Ramona and the other girls all get along extremely well with her.

* CoolOldLady: Destiny's grandmother is revealed to be, when she casually lets slip that she once danced with [[Music/FrankieValliAndTheFourSeasons Frankie Valli]].

* NWordPrivileges: It's implied that this is enforced in this universe; Liz, who's black, is the only character we hear using it.

* AdultFear:
** Dorothy comes home to find out [[spoiler: her grandmother died while watching television in the living room. It's sudden, unexpected, and incredibly tragic]].
** Invoked by [[spoiler: the police officers interrogating Dorothy. They convince her to take a plea deal by telling her to think of her daughter. Lily will have to grow up without her mom if Dorothy goes to prison]].

* OutnumberedSibling: Annabelle mentions that she only has brothers.

* FourGirlEnsemble: Annabelle is the childish one, Mercedes is the mannish one, Ramona is the sexy one, and Destiny is the girl next door.

* CoolOldLady: Destiny's grandmother is revealed to be, when she casually lets slip that she once danced with Frankie Valli.

* VillainProtagonist: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]. The strippers aren't villainous per see but they do drug and rob men.

* FamilyOfChoice: Destiny, Ramona, Mercedes and Annabelle eventually come to see each as family, which is highlighted during the scene when they all spent Christmas together. Destiny's daughter even calls Ramona "[[HonoraryUncle Aunt Ramona]]".

* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Dorothy's grandmother never questions where Dorothy got so much money, despite the fact that she goes from struggling to make end's meet to buying a huge, beautiful house in the suburbs in a very short amount of time.

* BlackAndGreyMorality: The film treats the strippers and their victims as deserving of both criticism and sympathy. On the one hand, you have the bankers and customers whose behavior helped cause the recession and who are often presented as amoral, sleazy and occasionally borderline predatory but they still didn't deserve to be drugged and robbed and some were even dealing with their own issues. On the other hand, the women drug and rob men but it's shown they only did so after legitimately trying to find honest work but either being met with mistreatment or shut out entirely and feeling they had no other options and Ramona and Destiny had to take care of children while Annabelle had been completely disowned by her own family and this was further brought on by a global recession completely out of their control. Neither side is presented as completely good or evil.

* BlackAndGreyMorality: The film treats all parties as both deserving of criticism and sympathy. On the one hand, you have the bankers and customers whose behavior caused the recession and who are often presented as amoral, sleazy and occasionally borderline predatory but they still didn't deserve to be drugged and robbed. On the other hand, the women drug and rob men but it's shown they only did so after legitimately trying to find honest work but either being met with mistreatment or shut out entirely and feeling they had no other options and this was brought on by a global recession completely out of their control.

* UsefulNotes/DeggansRule: The protagonists are an Asian and Latina woman, with an African-American in a prominent supporting role. The story has nothing to do with race, bar some implied subtext between Destiny and Elizabeth.

* TwentyMinutesIntoThePast: The film was released in 2019, but the framing device takes place through 2014 and 2015, with the events depicted take place during the 2007/08 financial crisis and then jumping to 2011 where the girls begin their criminal activities, which last until 2013.

** Dorothy and Ramona Vega's real life counterparts were known as Rosie and Samantha Foxx (née Barbash).

* AdaptationNameChange: Dorothy and Ramona Vega's real life counterparts were known as Rosie and Samantha Foxx (née Barbash).

* ActorAllusion: Cardi B, a former stripper, plays one of the dancers at Moves.
* AmbiguousCriminalHistory: Two of the dancers are said to have been sent to jail. For what, we never find out.

* AdaptationNameChange: Dorothy and Ramona Vega's real life counterparts were known as Rosie and Samanta Foxx (née Barbash).

''Hustlers'' is a 2019 dramedy from writer/director Lorene Scafaria. It stars Creator/ConstanceWu, Creator/JenniferLopez, Creator/JuliaStiles, [[Series/{{Riverdale}} Lili Reinhart]], Music/KekePalmer, Music/{{Lizzo}}, and Music/CardiB.

* AmbiguouslyBi: Destiny, who has two failed relationships with men and a stronger female relationship with her coworker and best friend Ramona and shares some lingering glances at her. Ramona as well, who often holds hands with Destiny and calls her "baby".

Compare ''Film/MagicMike'' which is also set in a strip club and loosely inspired by real life events.

Compare ''Film/MagicMike'' which is also inspired by the lives of a real-life individual working at a strip club.

Compare ''Film/MagicMike'' which is also inspired by the lives of real-life individuals working at a strip club.