A journalist filed a lawsuit against the recent film "American Hustle" for damages he claims he suffered after his name was mentioned in false attribution in the movie.

In a brief scene in "American Hustle," Jennifer Lawrence's character Rosalyn warns her husband, Christian Bale's Irving, that microwaving his food causes it to lose nutrients.

"That's b------t," he responds. But then Rosalyn shows him a magazine page, responding "It's not b------t. I read it in an article. Look, by Paul Brodeur."

However, the real Brodeur said his reputation was hurt by these claims about microwaves that "American Hustle" accredited to him. He is an actual science journalist who has written at The New York for almost 40 years. He has written extensively on the dangers of microwave radiation, even penning a book on the subject, "The Zapping of America." But according to Brodeur's lawsuit, he never said they remove nutrition from people's food.

When the Academy Award-nominated film was released in theaters in January, Brodeur told the Huffington Post that the movie falsely credited him with the faulty science. Now he filed a libel lawsuit against the production and distribution companies behind the film: Columbia Pictures, Atlas Entertainment and Annapurna Pictures.

The complaint was filed Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court, stating that Brodeur was attributed with a "scientifically unsupportable statement," which had damaged his reputation.

"The scene from the movie American Hustle where the defamatory statement was made is highly offensive to a reasonable person," it states. Brodeur is suing for damages totaling $1 million, alleging libel, defamation, slander and false light.

The film, which also stars Bradley Cooper and Amy Adams as well as Lawrence and Bale, was written and directed by David O'Russell. "American Hustle" was nominated for 10 Academy Awards and took in more than $150 million in domestic box offices.