Then there’s the seriously complicating fact that Irving’s frustrated wife-he’s married to an emotionally unhinged loon named Rosalyn-falls in love with one of said mobsters and starts blabbing all sorts of stuff Irving certainly doesn’t want them to know about. Soon the mob’s involved, naturally wanting its fair share. And in this case, the chaos cup runneth over, spilling in just about every direction possible. So he’s not above taking a bribe if it will help accomplish his goals-a weakness that leaves him vulnerable to the clever sting that Irving, Sydney and Richie concoct to nail him, one that involves Carmine taking money from a fake sheik who’s supposedly interested in investing in the Shore.īut the best laid plans of cons and schemers sometimes go awry. And while he’s not a greedy man, Carmine has big aspirations: rebuilding the Jersey Shore’s decimated business climate and helping to get as many of his fellow Garden State residents get back on their feet as he can. But he’s also the man who’s recently brought gambling back to Atlantic City. One potential target is Camden, N.J., mayor Carmine Polito-a beloved politician with a growing and glowing reputation for making everybody happy. Richie’s terms seem straightforward: Get him four convictions, and Irving and Sydney walk. Richie cruelly throws Sydney (whom he believes really is Lady Edith Greensly) in a holding cell for three days, breaking her emotionally and manipulating Irving into an agreement to put their con skills to work for the Bureau. Perhaps, as it turns out, a notch or three too far, as their seriously successful sharkery soon attracts the attention of ambitious (and morally ambiguous) FBI agent Richie DeMaso, who’s eager to make a name for himself in his young career. Sydney assumes the role of a British banking impresario named Lady Edith Greensly as she and Irving ramp up their con shtick a notch. And given her always-on-display feminine wiles, combined with Irving’s natural flair for bilking desperate folks out of their money, that’s exactly what happens. Sydney believes she and Irving can take his fraudulent loan business to the next level. The femme fatale is drawn to Irving’s confident swagger-his considerable paunch and carefully glued-on toupee notwithstanding. But everything changes when he meets the smoldering Sydney Prosser at a pool party in 1978. Irving Rosenfeld is a man of modest ambition devoted to running his legitimate dry cleaning business in New Jersey … while schlepping counterfeit art and running a predatory local loan shark business on the side. congressmen being convicted of bribery in 1981. Russell’s latest farcically dark dramedy, a fictionalized imagining of what might have gone on behind the scenes in the real-life Abscam scandal that resulted in seven U.S. That might be the best way to describe the onion-like layers of director David O. A con, swaddled in a swindle, shrouded in deception, surrounded by another con.
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