<em>Molly's Game</em> Is Pure Aaron Sorkin, for Better and for Worse
Jessica Chastain anchors the <em>West Wing</em> creator’s directorial debut, a dramatic retelling of an underground poker mogul’s rise and fall.
“Sit down,” Larry Bloom (Kevin Costner) says to his daughter Molly (Jessica Chastain) near the end of Aaron Sorkin’s directorial debut, . “I’m going to give you three years of therapy in three minutes.” It’s a line seemingly meant to draw scoffs and eye-rolls, a cherry on top of the ostentatious 140-minute sundae that is this movie—a dramatic retelling of the rise and fall of a real-life underground-poker mogul. Sorkin has been one of Hollywood’s premier screenwriters for decades, creating the TV hit and scripting films like , , and . For years, Sorkin’s rat-a-tat conversation has been interpreted by famed directors like
