Molly Bloom, running high stakes poker games.

Rating: Null/10 (27 April 2018)

I watched this at home on DVD from our public library. My wife skipped.
Jessica Chastain plays Molly Bloom, a bright young lady from Colorado, an Olympic-quality skier who hoped to attend law school. To take a break between the end of her competitive skiing and her enrollment in Law School she moved to Los Angeles, took a couple of jobs, then fell into a job which required her to assist in legal high-stakes poker games.
This eventually branched out to the point where she staged and ran her own games, still legal, because she was not taking a cut, but earning a very nice living on tips from the wealthy gamblers. Because the stakes kept getting higher and her financial risk high if a gambler could not pay what he borrowed, she began to take a cut and this crossed over to illegal.
We have to keep in mind that this movie is based on Bloom's own book, so it is the story from her side. However I found it to be a fascinating story, one that most of us only wonder about. What really goes in in high stakes gambling? The movie is a bit long at just over 2 hours but it held my interest all the way through. And Chastain shows why she is one of the best actresses today.
Good movie. Costner is good in a relatively small role as her college professor father.