Poker Movie �Molly's Game' hits Theaters this Holiday Season
This holiday season, vacationing poker players and poker enthusiasts have a good reason to visit the movie theaters. On December 25, the movie ‘Molly's Game' opened in most huge cities in the United States, and the movie shall be released nationwide in January 5, 2018.
Oscar-winning screenwriter Aaron Sorkin directed it and his highly-anticipated directorial debut was actually initially scheduled for release to theaters on Thanksgiving, but after a warmly received showing at the Toronto International Film Festival this autumn, the release date was moved to the end of this year.
The movie is two hours and 20 minutes long, and so far has enjoyed positive reviews. It received a nice 7.3/10 rating on IMDB from 1,700 reviews and an 84% score on Rotten Tomatoes. The movie's IMDB rating is actually the same as that of the 1998 cult classic Rounders with 129,000 reviews, but only time can tell if Molly's Game has that same staying power as the story portrays scenes showing the heyday of the 2000s poker boom.
The film features stars like Jessica Chastain who plays Molly Bloom and her lawyer in the movie Idris Elba, and Sorkin described their chemistry as ‘electric'. Chastain, as Molly Bloom, is a former high-stakes poker organizer dubbed as the "Poker Princess". Bloom is also a former Olympic-class skier and was earning $50,000 per night for setting up exclusive underground games that gathered wealthy businessmen and real-life movie stars.
She was then indicted by the federal authorities for being involved in a far-reaching gambling ring that was somehow linked to the Russian mob, and that is where her co-star Idris Elba comes in. Elba plays as Bloom's lawyer in the movie, while Kevin Costner plays as Bloom's father, and Michael Cera. Movie stars who played in the real-life games run by Bloom in New York or L.A. included Ben Affleck, Leonardo DiCaprio, Toby Maguire and Matt Damon, though none of them made cameo appearances in Molly's Game.
As the poker community knows, Matt Damon, a poker enthusiast, was the star of the Rounders movie.
Based on the real Molly Bloom's 2014 memoir, Sorkin wrote the script which came out after she was sentenced to probation. She had faced up to 5 years behind bars.
Even though the movie is centered on the game of poker, Sorkin earlier in the year said that Molly's Game isn't entirely about cards. However, the poker community and the rest of the public will be the judge of that.
Sorkin said, "If you're a poker player, you'll enjoy the poker scenes - but it's not a poker movie. No, we never care who wins or loses a game. The movie is about her and what happened to her. And particularly two relationships in her life: the relationship she has with her criminal lawyer, played by Idris Elba, and her relationship with her father, Kevin Costner."
The movie has earned quite a buzz for its participants. Chastain has already earned a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress, and there is considerable attention being given to Chastain and Elba (Best Actor) and Sorkin (Adapted Screenplay) for this year's Oscars. Whether it will meet the high standards of the critics remains to be seen.
Molly's Game opened in theaters with a limited release on Christmas Day, with a nationwide release set for January 5. The cinema theater is a bit crowded this weekend, with other new movies released such as Matt Damon's Downsizing, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, and Hugh Jackman's musical The Greatest Showman.
The movie had a budget of $30 million, a bit more than double the budget for Rounders.
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