Premiering last month at the Toronto International Film Festival, if there was one thing everyone could agree on about Aaron Sorkin‘s directorial debut “Molly’s Game,” it was that it was very… Aaron Sorkin-y. Even if his chops behind the camera still need some work, the dialogue is exactly what you’d expect. It’s no “The Social Network” or even “Steve Jobs” (which was pretty underrated, if you ask me) but it does feature Jessica Chastain gamely chewing into the screenplay while wearing some outrageously beautiful/trashy attire.
“Molly’s Game” tells the unlikely but very true tale about former Olympic hopeful Molly Bloom, who winds up chasing her competitive spirit to the west coast, and establishes a high-stakes, high-rolling weekly poker game, that soon puts her in the spotlight of the authorities. Here’s the official synopsis:
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MOLLY’S GAME is based on the true story of Molly Bloom, an Olympic-class skier who ran the world’s most exclusive high-stakes poker game for a decade before being arrested in the middle of the night by 17 FBI agents wielding automatic weapons. Her players included Hollywood royalty, sports stars, business titans and finally, unbeknownst to her, the Russian mob. Her only ally was her criminal defense lawyer Charlie Jaffey, who learned that there was much more to Molly than the tabloids led us to believe.
Co-starring Idris Elba, Michael Cera, Bill Camp, Chris O’Dowd, and Kevin Costner, “Molly’s Game” opens on November 22nd.