Lilly Dillon werkt voor een bookmaker en manipuleert alszodanig uitslagen van paardenraces. Haar zoon Roy is eveneens een oplichter, die het echter wat kleinschaliger aanpakt. Wanneer Roy in het ziekenhuis terecht komt na in elkaar geslagen te zijn na een mislukte oplichtpoging, komen haar oudergevoelens boven. Inmiddels heeft Roy ook een andere vrouw in zijn leven; de aantrekkelijke Myra Langtry.
Nee, helaas is The Grifters nog niet beschikbaar op Netflix in Nederland.
| Directing | Stephen Frears | Director |
| Writing | Jim Thompson | Novel |
| Writing | Donald E. Westlake | Screenplay |
| Sound | Elmer Bernstein | Original Music Composer |
| Editing | Mick Audsley | Editor |
| Camera | Oliver Stapleton | Director of Photography |
| Production | Barbara De Fina | Executive Producer |
| Production | Martin Scorsese | Producer |
| Production | Jim Painter | Producer |
| Production | Robert A. Harris | Producer |
| Production | Peggy Rajski | Co-Producer |
| Art | Dennis Gassner | Production Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Richard Hornung | Costume Design |
| Production | Juliet Taylor | Casting |
| Production | Victoria Thomas | Casting |
| Production | Llewellyn Wells | Production Manager |
| Directing | J. Stephen Buck | First Assistant Director |
| Directing | Joe Camp III | Second Assistant Director |
| Art | Leslie McDonald | Art Direction |
| Art | Nancy Haigh | Set Decoration |
| Production | Richard Davis, Jr. | Location Manager |
| Directing | Mary Cybulski | Script Supervisor |
| Sound | John Sutton | Sound Mixer |
| Sound | Ian Wright | Boom Operator |
| Costume & Make-Up | Julie Hewett | Makeup Artist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Cydney Cornell | Hairstylist |
| Production | Kathleen M. Courtney | Production Coordinator |
| Production | Beth Bernstein | Assistant Production Coordinator |
| Production | Cynthia Quan | Production Accountant |
| Camera | Marco Mazzei | First Assistant Camera |
| Camera | Katherine M. Butler | Second Assistant Camera |
| Camera | Matthew Morrissey | Third Assistant Camera |
| Camera | Suzanne Hanover | Still Photographer |
| Sound | Kant Pan | Supervising Sound Editor |
| Sound | Peter Maxwell | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Sound | Derek Holding | Dialogue Editor |
| Sound | Rick Dunford | Foley Editor |
| Art | Douglas Fox | Property Master |
| Art | Bill Cancienne | Assistant Property Master |
| Art | Joseph Timothy Conway | Assistant Property Master |
| Production | Jody Hummer | Assistant Location Manager |
| Art | Scott Plauche | Art Department Coordinator |
| Art | Paige Augustine | Assistant Set Decoration |
| Art | Claire Gaul | Assistant Set Decoration |
| Art | Robert Greenfield | Leadman |
| Costume & Make-Up | Mark Bridges | Assistant Costume Designer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Kimberly Adams | Assistant Costume Designer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Elizabeth Feldbauer | Wardrobe Supervisor |
| Lighting | Jack English | Gaffer |
| Lighting | James Babineaux | Best Boy Electric |
| Crew | Gary Jensen | Stunt Coordinator |
| Art | Frank Viviano | Construction Coordinator |
| Art | Chris Snyder | Construction Foreman |
| Crew | A. Welch Lambeth | Transportation Coordinator |
| Crew | Bill M. Puluti | Transportation Captain |
| Production | Jory Weitz | Casting Associate |
