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Molly's Game
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Molly's Game is a 2017 biographical drama written and directed by Aaron Sorkin, based on the story of Molly Bloom. Produced by Mark Gordon, Matt Jackson, and Amy Pascal for Huayi Brothers and STX Entertainment, with cinematography by Charlotte Bruus Christensen and music by Daniel Pemberton, it stars Jessica Chastain, Idris Elba, Kevin Costner, and Michael Cera. Set in Los Angeles and filmed in Toronto, it was distributed by STX Entertainment, Netflix, and Hulu, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay. It premiered on 8 September 2017, runs 141 minutes, and had a budget of 30 million dollars.
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7.2Molly Bloom, a young skier and former Olympic hopeful becomes a successful entrepreneur (and a target of an FBI investigation) when she establishes a high-stakes, international poker game.
Cast
- Jessica Chastain as Molly Bloom
- Idris Elba as Charlie Jaffey
- Kevin Costner as Larry Bloom
- Michael Cera as Player X
- Jeremy Strong as Dean Keith
- Chris O'Dowd as Douglas Downey
Themes
- new york city
- court
- poker
- gambling
- bratva (russian mafia)
- olympic games
- fbi
- biography
- arrest
- based on true story
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Aaron Sorkin
- Screenplay by
- Aaron Sorkin
- Based on
- Molly's Game , by Molly Bloom
- Produced by
- Mark Gordon Amy Pascal Matt Jackson
- Starring
- Jessica Chastain Idris Elba Kevin Costner Michael Cera Jeremy Strong Chris O'Dowd Bill Camp
- Cinematography
- Charlotte Bruus Christensen
- Edited by
- Alan Baumgarten Josh Schaeffer Elliot Graham
- Music by
- Daniel Pemberton
- Production companies
- STXfilms H. Brothers TMP The MG Company
- Distributed by
- STX Entertainment (United States and China) Sierra/Affinity (International)
- Release dates
- September 8, 2017 ( 2017-09-08 ) ( TIFF ) January 5, 2018 ( 2018-01-05 ) (United States)
- Running time
- 141 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $30 million
- Box office
- $59.3 million
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- biographical film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Main subject
- Molly Bloom
- Director
- Aaron Sorkin
- Screenwriter
- Aaron Sorkin
- Composer
- Daniel Pemberton
- Producer
- Amy Pascal
- Production company
- STX Entertainment
- Cinematographer
- Charlotte Bruus Christensen
- Narrative location
- Los Angeles
- Filming location
- Toronto
- Duration
- 140
- FilmAffinity ID
- 993257
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Official website
- www.mollysgame.movie
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- title
- Molly's Game
- distributed by
- Hulu
- publication date
- 2018-01-04
- Commons category
- Molly's Game
- review score
- 71/100
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay
- capital cost
- 30000000
- box office
- 59284015
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Encyclopedic overview
Molly's Game is a 2017 American biographical film written and directed by Aaron Sorkin (in his directorial debut), based on the 2014 memoir by Molly Bloom. The film follows Molly, a former Olympic-class skier, as she runs the world's most exclusive underground poker empire and becomes the target of an FBI investigation. It stars Jessica Chastain as Molly, with Idris Elba as her lawyer and Kevin Costner as her father, alongside Michael Cera, Jeremy Strong, Chris O'Dowd, Joe Keery, Brian D'Arcy James, and Bill Camp.
The film shows her rise and fall as the "Poker Princess", building poker empires in L.A. and New York. Her poker players include some of the wealthiest, most powerful men in the world: movie stars, elite athletes, billionaire business magnates, and, unbeknownst to her, the Russian mafia.
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