The Hustle is a 2019 American comedy film directed by Chris Addison, starring Anne Hathaway, Rebel Wilson and Alex Sharp.

Penny Rust is a young, Australian, small-time con artist who catfishes wealthy men, pretending to be an attractive young lady looking for love; then showing up on the first date claiming to be friends with her persona and convincing the man into giving her lots of money, which she claims will go to her persona.

While on the plane leaving France, Penny encounters a wealthy Danish man from whom Josephine stole a highly valuable piece of jewelry belonging to his wife (which he was hoping to sell to pay his gambling debts and then replace with the money he got from the original).

Josephine, however, pretends to be a prominent eye doctor to "treat" Penny using unorthodox methods as a ruse to get close to Thomas.

Penny breaks free from the wall and learns from a hotel server that Josephine never left his room, which makes her assume that they have had sex.

Their farewell is cut short when Thomas returns while in the middle of a con act against wealthy tourists in which he includes the two women.

Jac Schaeffer wrote the updated script, with credit also going to the previous films' screenwriters Stanley Shapiro, Paul Henning, and Dale Launer.

[6] In August 2017, Alex Sharp was cast to play a male lead in the film, a tech billionaire in his early 20s who becomes the target of the wager between the two con-women.

It refers to Penny and Josephine as "The Revengers" — a parody name that was also previously referenced by another film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Thor: Ragnarok.

Eventually, the filmmakers managed to appeal and the film was reclassified as PG-13 by The Motion Picture Association Of America.

[16] In the United States and Canada, the film was released alongside Pokémon Detective Pikachu, Tolkien and Poms, was projected to gross $11–15 million from 2,750 theaters in its opening weekend.

"[22] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 35 out of 100, based on 28 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".

Women made up 71% of the opening weekend demographic, and those polled by PostTrak gave the film an overall score of 73%.

"[24] Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian wrote: "Anne Hathaway detonates a megaton blast of pure unfunniness in this terrifying film.