“In this room, you couldn’t buy your win, you couldn’t buy me, and you couldn’t buy a seat at the table,” explains Molly Bloom (Jessica Chastain) in a new trailer for “Molly’s Game.” Forced out of sports after an injury, the former Olympic-level skier ends up running what’s described as “the world’s most exclusive, glamorous, and decadent man-cave” — a high-stakes poker game attended by movie stars, athletes, and billionaires. Molly is raking in tons of cash, but as she explains, the “government raided my game, [and] took all of my money, assuming all of it was made illegally, which it wasn’t.” And now she’s about to go on trial.
Based on a true story, “Molly’s Game” is an adaptation of Bloom’s book of the same name. The drama sees Molly deciding whether to give up her hard drives full of sensitive information about her high-profile clients in exchange for full immunity or face potential jail time. While her lawyer (Idris Elba, “Luther”) pressures her to take the deal, Molly insists that “families, lives, [and] careers will be ruined.”
“Molly’s Game” received strong reviews out of its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival last month. Chastain-starrer “Woman Walks Ahead,” a Native American period drama directed by Susanna White, also bowed at the fest.
“Miss Sloane,” “The Zookeeper’s Wife,” and “The Huntsman: Winter’s War” are among Chastain’s recent credits. She received Oscar nods for her roles in “Zero Dark Thirty” and “The Help.”
Written and directed by Aaron Sorkin (“Steve Jobs”), “Molly’s Game” hits theaters November 22.
