![]() Molly moves to New York, with the hope of beginning a new underground poker game. After Molly berates him for his unethical actions, Player X decides to change venue for his games, and the other players join him, leaving Molly. One night, after accidentally losing a hand to the notoriously worst player in Molly's circle, Brad Marion, Harlan becomes increasingly compulsive, suffering heavy losses (later, Molly finds out that Player X, who enjoys ruining people's lives more than the game itself, has been funding Harlan to keep him in the game). Harlan Eustice, a skilled, conservative, and successful player, joins Molly's game. Molly becomes increasingly successful, gaining more money while being pressured by Player X to raise the stakes for her games. Player X, along with many other players, decides to leave Dean's games to play at Molly's game. Additionally, she contacts employees at clubs and casinos to try and spread word about her poker games. She rents a penthouse at a hotel and hires a staff to help her run games. Molly, having gained contacts through years of running the game, decides to create her own poker games. Dean, upon seeing that Molly is becoming increasingly independent in running the games, attempts to control her, and then he fires her. In particular, she hopes to please the most successful player, a film star named Player X, by attracting new players to the game. Molly is initially uninformed on poker topics but quickly learns how to appeal to the players to gain tips. Molly earns large sums of money in tips alone. Many famous and wealthy individuals, such as movie stars, investment bankers, and sports players, are involved in Dean's game. She becomes his office manager, and he soon involves her in running his underground poker games at a bar called " The Cobra Lounge". Once she arrives, she becomes a bottle service waitress at a club, where she meets Dean, an ostentatious but unsuccessful real estate developer. Instead of following her original plan of attending law school, Molly decides to take a year off and move to Los Angeles. In a qualifying event for the 2002 Winter Olympics, she was severely injured, ending her career. Molly Bloom is a world-class mogul skier with Olympic aspirations, the result of years of enforced training from her overbearing father. The film earned Chastain a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress – Drama, while Sorkin earned nominations for his screenplay at the Academy Awards, Golden Globes, Writers Guild of America Awards, and BAFTA Awards. Molly's Game received positive reviews, with particular praise for Sorkin's screenplay, as well as Chastain and Elba's performances, with the former being considered one of the best of her career by some critics. ![]() The film premiered on September 8, 2017, at the Toronto International Film Festival, and began a limited theatrical release in the United States on December 25, 2017, by STX Entertainment, before expanding wide on January 5, 2018, and grossed $59 million worldwide. Principal photography began in November 2016 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The film follows Bloom (Chastain), who becomes the target of an FBI investigation after the underground poker empire she runs for Hollywood celebrities, athletes, business tycoons, and the Russian mob is exposed. It stars Jessica Chastain, Idris Elba, Kevin Costner, Michael Cera, Jeremy Strong, Chris O'Dowd, Joe Keery, Brian D'Arcy James, and Bill Camp. Molly's Game is a 2017 American biographical crime drama film written and directed by Aaron Sorkin (in his directorial debut), based on the 2014 memoir of the same name by Molly Bloom.
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