In Episode 10, Bolton and Grace recap the 2017 film, Molly’s Game, and discuss the facts of the true crime story that the movie is based on.
The movie was written and directed by Aaron Sorkin and is based on the 2014 memoir of the same name written by Molly Bloom. The film stars Jessica Chastain as Molly Bloom, a former world-class skier and aspiring law student, who found herself running a star studded high stakes poker game. Kevin Costner plays Molly’s demanding father, Michael Cera plays the infamously repugnant ‘Player X’, and Idris Elba plays Molly’s lawyer who she hires after she is named in a Federal mob indictment. The film focuses on the life of Molly Bloom, how she came to run such a high-stakes poker game, why she ends up in Federal Court and perhaps why she received the sentence she did. The film is a nice break (for the most part) from violent crime stories and immerses viewers into the world of high-stakes private poker.
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