Many of his films (The Grifters, Bullets over Broadway, Being John Malkovich) have been rather big hits with the Academy, but Cusack's neurotic protagonists never quite charge to the front.

他的很多电影（如：《致命骗局》，《子弹横飞百老汇》，《傀儡人生》）都是奥斯卡大热，但是库萨克所饰演的这位有点神经质的主角并没有很出彩。

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2: the 10 Lil Grifters Job: the dream team of scheme get stung during a sting when their mark is suddenly killed.

第2集：10小骗子的工作：方案的梦之队被蜇刺时，马克突然死亡时。

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From director Stephen Frears, who has given us everything from The Grifters to High Fidelity, Helen Mirren stars as the modern Queen Elizabeth trying to deal with the tragic death of Princess Diana back in 1997.

NPR: Summary Judgment: 'The Departed,' 'Employee of the Month,' 'The Queen'

You can feel a bit of her peculiar personal magnetism in roles as varied as Morticia Addams and the agonized mother and con artist Huston played in "The Grifters, " a part she took on at the end of her famous 16-year romance with Jack Nicholson.

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Sometimes, though, I think that we have become a nation of grifters and that standardized tests are part of the reason why.

FORBES: Grifters and the Cult of Savviness