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- The film Molly's Game (up for two Golden Globes on Sunday) is based on a memoir by Molly Bloom, an Olympic-level skier whose athletic career ended in a dramatic wipe-out. While looking for something to occupy her time before law school, Bloom stumbled onto the world of underground, high-stakes celebrity poker.
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Dec 27, 2017 · The Real Celebrity Stories Behind ‘Molly’s Game’. In Molly Bloom’s high roller poker games, Tobey Maguire was a big jerk, Leonardo DiCaprio wore giant headphones, and Alex Rodriguez just liked...
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Dec 25, 2017 · In researching how accurate Molly's Game is, we discovered that as the game began to get out of control, so did Molly's life. She ended up addicted to drugs. Her poker customers came to include men from the Russian mob. She often found herself being stiffed cash she was owed.
Dec 25, 2017 · In a voiceover, Molly blames this twig for changing her life path from athlete to “poker princess.” But in real life, that fall never happened.
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- Eliana Dockterman
Dec 20, 2017 · The story, about a world-class skier named Molly Bloom who went on to run the world’s most exclusive high-stakes poker game (only to become an FBI target), represents famed screenwriter Aaron...
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- Andrew Nusca
The plot of the movie unfolds in the telling, as Molly Bloom (played by Jessica Chastain) recounts the events that lead her from a job as a cocktail waitress to manager of an regular...
Feb 11, 2024 · Aaron's Sorkin's Molly's Game stars Jessica Chastain as the real-life Molly Bloom, who ran the most exclusive high-stakes poker games in the world. Molly's Game is real... for the most part. Screen Rant
Jan 6, 2018 · The film Molly's Game (up for two Golden Globes on Sunday) is based on a memoir by Molly Bloom, an Olympic-level skier whose athletic career ended in a dramatic wipe-out. While looking for...