Academy Awards, USA 2018
| Nominee Oscar | Best Adapted Screenplay Aaron Sorkin |
STX Films
Directed by Aaron Sorkin
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(Blu-ray, Universal)
After her career as an Olympic skier is ended by an accident, she moves to LA to start her life over. Working for tips in bars she meets a man who runs underground poker games. He hires her as a secretary and learns all of the tricks of running the game. This causes her to get fired, but she knows enough to start her own games which are a great success. However, she gets pressured by one of the players to raise the stakes, and when she doesn't he leaves the game and takes the players with him. Relocating to New York, she starts a new game and finds the same success. However, the mafia gets involved and she is pressured to start skimming from the top to protect her assets. She gets arrested by the FBI, but convinces a skeptical lawyer to represent her case. She ends up pleading guilty despite her lawyers objections, but a friendly judge lets her off with no jail time. Well made and well acted, but spends too much time on the intricasies of poker, which just isn't that exciting.
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