The hustle

2022 - 6 - 5

This 23-year-old spent $45000 to become a wedding photographer ... (CNBC)

Grace Torres' photography business is more than a passion project that turned into a career. To the 23-year-old, it represents financial freedom.

Over the past year and a half, Torres has delegated some of her responsibilities. She shot 46 weddings in one year, 10 of which were in a single month. Other days, however, remind her of the challenges of being a young entrepreneur. She increased her availability, and started booking gigs every other week instead of every other month. At first, Torres says, the outlook seemed bleak: She already worked two to three other jobs throughout college, largely to help her afford her camera equipment. She started to consider what a full-time photography gig would look like.

Hustle cast guide: Guide to the Netflix movie's cast and characters (Netflix Life)

Besides Sandler, the cast for the drama film includes Queen Latifah, Ben Foster, Jordan Elizabeth Hull, Juancho Hernangómez, and others. Below, you'll find a ...

She’s also currently shooting a television series called Mentiras pasajeras. María Botto plays Paola, Bo’s caring and resilient mother. Also, it seems that Jordan is a very private person because we could barely find any information about her. Kenny played for several basketball teams over his basketball career, such as the Sacramento Kings, Atlanta Hawks, Houston Rockets, Detroit Pistons, Orlando Magic, and Denver Nuggets. In Hustle, he plays the role of Leon Rich. Leon is Stanley’s close friend from college. Ben Foster plays the role of Vince, Stanley’s boss. Juancho will continue playing for the Utah Jazz, as far as we know. Juancho Hernangómez plays Bo Cruz, a basketball player who lives in Spain. He works hard to provide for his mother and daughter. What’s next? As we mentioned earlier, Sandler portrays the protagonist in the film. Below, you’ll find a breakdown of who’s who in the drama film. If you’re curious about who else is a part of the Hustle cast, we’ve got you covered! With Adam Sandler starring in the leading role and an exciting premise, people will absolutely love the film.

Hustle (2022) review – a bonafide crowd-pleaser (Ready Steady Cut)

This review of the Netflix film Hustle (2022) does not contain spoilers. This Netflix Adam Sandler movie is an honest-to-God, genuine crowd-pleaser. Here.

You have Will Fetters ( A Star is Born) pedigree and Taylor Materne’s (The Longest Week) experience in writing, marketing, and producing NBA 2K video game franchises. Out of pure luck (and movie cliche magic), Stan stumbles upon a twenty-two-year-old phenom named Bo Cruz (Juancho Hernangomez). The only question is if Stan can convince the brass that Bo is the player to put them over the top and put Stan back on the bench where he belongs. There is never a moment you are mindful of this being a typical Sandler/Netflix tandem. However, he has the respect of the Philadelphia 76ers owner Rex (the legendary Robert Duvall) and his daughter Kat (SNL’s Heidi Gardener). The son, Vin ( Leave No Trace’s Ben Foster), is another matter. Here is a sports movie that is always conscious of staying in the moment rather than looking forward or back. That credit and sensuality is brought to this against all odds sports tale by director Jeremiah Zagar, a man whose critical darling of a film, We the Animals (be on the lookout for the Raúl Castillo cameo), had the determination in every view and feeling that you felt immersed in the character’s experience no matter the outcome.

Music gives Adam Sandler's Philly basketball movie 'Hustle' its flow (The Philadelphia Inquirer)

The Netflix basketball movie moves to music that's a mix of Philly hip-hop and composer Dan Deacon's electronic score.

It’s Hustle’s version of a Rocky steps sequence, and with Deacon’s music urging him on, you know he’s going to make it to the top. Just this: Dallas’ song is built on a sample of “New World In My View,” from King Britt Presents Sister Gertrude Morgan, a ready to be rediscovered 2005 classic by Philly DJ-producer King Britt in which he sampled late New Orleans street preacher and visual arts Sister Gertrude Morgan. Cool choice! (Though I’ve compiled a Spotify playlist of all the songs that you can hear here.) He plays a sold out show at Milkboy Philly on June 14. (It’s also a buddy movie.) Those tracks deepen the movie’s sense of place.

Hustle Review - IGN (IGN)

Hustle may be be a conventional sports drama, but it still offers Adam Sandler another dramatic role to shine in.

It can be enough that the characters have an unbending passion for it, and the way Sandler talks about it, and unleashes the jargon, feels natural and inviting. If this had all been done poorly, it would have felt like someone underacting paired with someone over-extending, but it works well, and Stanley's surrogate father-slash-coach role allows for a playfulness to shine through. As a long-toiling scout for the Philadelphia 76ers, Stanley's been away for his job more than home for his family, and missed more of his daughter's birthdays than should ever be acceptable. And it pays off over the course of the movie, too, when Bo begins to open up more and a firmer rapport is established. We've seen Sandler do drama before, but it usually comes to us as quirky and/or juiced-up roles for auteur directors ( Punch Drunk Love, Uncut Gems). This is his stab at an everyman, allowing himself to be schlubby and genuine (side note: it's probably the closest he's come to playing himself, in a way). Plus, Bo is played very childlike, so the buddy elements here work simply because it's all designed for Sandler to talk circles around someone.

Hustle review – Adam Sandler scores in rags to riches tale (The Guardian)

A jaded basketball scout rediscovers his love for the game after spotting a prodigy hustling on the street.

Stanley’s enthusiasm for the game is dulled by the corporate muscle flexing of his boss (Ben Foster), and his health is taking a beating from the room service. Then he spots a Spaniard, Bo Cruz (played by NBA star Juancho Hernangomez), playing ball on the street, hustling opponents for cash. Not so much a sports movie, but rather a film that deals with the business of sport, Hustle has something in common with Oliver Stone’s thunderous American football drama, Any Given Sunday. The sport in this case is basketball – Adam Sandler plays Stanley, a jaded scout who hauls himself around the world in search of fresh talent – but the film is charged with a similar kinetic crackle to that of Stone’s picture.

'Hustle' review: Adam Sandler plays an NBA scout who's found his 6 ... (TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press)

Look, maybe it does. There's nothing wrong with wanting to move up the ladder, as Sandler's Stanley Sugerman so clearly does. A longtime and exhausted scout for ...

I appreciate that “Hustle” even exists in a Hollywood landscape that doesn’t presently know what to do with movies that aren’t about life-or-death or saving the world. As an actor, he struggles to fill in the script’s gaps — not that he should be asked to, anyway. And whatever charisma Hernangómez may have in real life as a player on the court doesn’t carry over onscreen. That’s more Sandler’s area, and his performance is refreshingly free of anything extraneous, playing a schleppy guy who allowed himself to get a little too bored with things, before putting it all on the line for a late-in-life attempt at something meaningful. And yet the stakes in “Hustle” feel nonexistent. A longtime and exhausted scout for the Philadelphia 76ers, he gets bumped to assistant coach for half a second before getting bumped back down when the team’s owner dies (a blink-or-you’ll-miss-him Robert Duvall) and his insufferable son (Ben Foster) takes over and sends Stanley out on the road to find that clichéd “missing piece” the team so desperately needs. C’mon now, that’s just clunky, whether it’s meant to be funny or a version of “kids these days!” Here’s how he attempts to drum up interest in Bo: “The kid is like if Scottie Pippen and a wolf had a baby.” I don’t know jack about basketball but I know who Pippen is and the line sort of just sort of sits there, willing itself to be more than it is, but you’ll forgive me if even I’m baffled to learn that Stanley’s own daughter is more clueless than I. Would a basketball obsessive who lives in Philly, employed by the Sixers no less, raise a child who would refer to Dr. J, aka Julius Erving, as “your doctor friend” with a straight face? General managers probably take all the credit when the team lands a star in the making, and lay all the blame on scouts when a sure thing flames out. But wait, there’s another kind of hustle at play — of the drive needed to compete at the NBA level. “Best sports fans in the world. In the pecking order of professional sports, is being a scout considered an undesirable gig?