American Hustle

The '80s were heady times. Sure, they weren't bursting at the seams with psychedelic waves of free love. Instead, they were revelling in dazzling sequins, sparkling wines and a collective penchant for flamboyance. Sure, they weren't the best of times for the American economy. In 1973, the OAPEC declared an oil embargo, and consequently cursed a rapidly burgeoning industrialised nation with a sever fuel crisis which would repeat itself in 1979 during the Iranian revolution.

But there was something about America in the '80s that kept powering its machinery with unflinching persist....