I think she needed the proceeds from the book to pay her attorney fees.

Just watched it. Start is way too slow but by the end I wasn't annoyed by the slow start, it built up a foundation that was necessary. I do think the movie went a bit over the top with making Molly look like a saint. Still entertaining & cool movie. Couple of questions:

*Who is the player Tobey Maguire staked?
*Was Tobey Maguire really the huge dick as portrayed in the film ('i like to ruin lifes', staking players in games without disclosing, ****ing Molly over for no reason,...)?
*Are these events in any way related to Tobey Maguire his acting career going to ****?
*Did that 'get me Molly, where is Molly' exchange really happen?

-the book says his name, he was just a friend of Toby's, not a celeb
-the book portrays Toby as a dick, and it seems reasonable to assume the stories of his dickish ways are accurate
-I doubt it. Toby isn't leading man material. He is or was married to the daughter of a studio head, I imagine that's why he got the breaks he did.
-don't remember reading that in the book, but seems plausible.

I saw it and have to say I would have took the deal and got my $4 million back - unless I am missing something...

Even though her testimony was supposed only to 'add color' there's a non-zero chance that Russian mobsters have her whacked because they believe she's shopped them to the Feds. Also integrity, I suppose.

But yeah, I'm also taking the $4m.

The movie makes it clear that the only names she named in the book were names already leaked to the press via the subpoena(I may not have this exact, but that's the gist)

Are you saying that's not true?

Only skimmed the last post or two but I read the book and A-Rod was named for one.

I edited my post because I think ARod's name was already leaked when the MLB investigated him.

That's how I understood it as well.

Did some Googling:

http://time.com/5073577/true-story-mollys-game/

http://www.historyvshollywood.com/re...s/mollys-game/

https://nypost.com/2018/01/02/how-th...ollywood-bigs/

Yeah it's not true. The whole movie is based on a lie. She names way way more than the "4 already named" names in the book.

But were there only 4 that had already been named?

There's a difference between just naming people as players and writing about some of their actions (in the private game) that has a negative impact on their reputation. For example from memory Tobey did not come off very well in the book. But I guess dirty laundry is what sells books, especially when its celebrities dirty laundry.

Tobey was married to Jennifer Meyer...daughter of Ron Meyer - head of Universal and co-founder of CAA. However, they didn't get married until 2007 - 5+ years after the first Spiderman. In fact, you could argue that his career went downhill after the marriage!

But, living in LA and knowing many in entertainment, Tobey is supposed to be an incredible tool. One reason that he rarely works anymore perhaps.

Movie was entertaining for sure but overall pretty bad. Good popcorn movie. The last 20 minutes were LOL bad...starting with Idris Elba giving this impassioned speech in the middle of a quiet police investigator meeting. Are we supposed to sympathize with her? "Oh no they took all of her money she has to buy soft pretzels instead of hot dogs!"

Running in to her father at the ice skating rink was one of the dumbest things I've ever seen in a movie. And the end "oh she's picking herself up and moving forward...so BRAVE!"

I watched it yesterday in cinema and its impressive

So I got an e-mail from Total Rewards a few days ago with a Q code that says it's good for admission to any AMC theatre only for Mollys Game. So I go watch it yesterday, for free haha.

Have to say, I guess I'll be the salmon swimming upstream here but I didn't think the movie was that great to be honest. I thought long stretches of the film dragged on with not much advance in the narrative. The flashback scenes with daddy teaching ski-girl daughter got repetitive and boring. And a lot of the screenplay dialogue I thought was predictable and uninteresting, such as:

Attorney: "Why are you so concerned about your name?"
Bloom: "Because it's MY name,....and I only have one"
Cue the long dramatic pause as if something earth-shattering or revealing was just said, zzzzzzzz.

Plus, the entire movie seemed to be more of an infomercial to sell Molly's book than an actual movie. How many scenes showed her book, talking about her book, referencing her book, reading her book? Seemed like a 2-hour book pitch more than anything.

I guess for a free flick I shouldn't complain, but it's not the great movie I was expecting based on all the glowing reviews out there.

I read the book and thought it was great. I really enjoyed the movie too.

But the ice skating scene was the most ridiculous scene in a movie since the boat ride when the chicken got his head cut off in the original Willie Wonka movie..WTF was that?

Thought it was pretty decent flick man. Chastain and Elba have good chemistry together.

It's an entertaining biopic that involves poker, not quite a full on poker movie.

In fact, the discussions about setting up the playing rooms, arranging the accoutrements of the game, talking about the credit lines, players tilting, all of that was way more enthralling to me than the couple of poker hand analsys spots.

Decent flick, it is hurt a little by the constant insinuation of certain names but not quite going there (the yankees guy recruitment spot) but overall it's still worth a watch.

Zero Dark Thirty, Interstellar

Just watched it and Tobey stacked the Ponzi guy.

i dont give a **** about her at all or dont care about her but other than heer prolly ****ing over someone to start or host the games herself and her running games. not sure what she did wrong though. unless she was leaking **** to media from get go

I saw this on showtime the other day
What a steaming pile of garbage

I saw this in theaters when it came out and didn't think it was particularly memorable in a good or bad way. I just thought it was OK and wasn't upset for buying a ticket to see it.

One scene does still stick with me though. The scene where the tilting reg played by Bill Camp gets stuck and becomes the fish the game is running around for the next day as he blows off all of his other plans. When I'm trying to grind back out of a hole in a single session and seem to be playing quite poorly I often find myself thinking back to that scene. My next day plans have been known to change because of it.

I remember cringing at the ice skating/talk with her dad scene as well.

Agree completely with your opinions on the movie MCA.

I also think movie should have had more poker scenes with celebrities and rich fish doing notable things and less of the legal and family scenes, for entertainment value purposes at least. The family and legal scenes were probably necessary for storyline and character development but I didn’t care for them.

The scenes with her in nyc getting in trouble with drugs and the mob was compelling. For people who read the book,
did this really happen or was it Hollywood glamorization?

Just finished the book. Only a few pages hinting at the gangster problems and almost nothing about drug problems.