Molly's Game

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Synopsis

Crime/Biography. Based on the book by Molly Bloom. After an injury dashes her dreams of competing at the Olympics, a young woman (Jessica Chastain) moves to Los Angeles where she begins running a high-stakes poker game.

Content elements

• Frequent, sometimes aggressive use of the sexual expletive and variations in a non-sexual context; infrequent use of scatological slang, cursing, profanity, vulgar expressions, and ethno-cultural slurs
• Infrequent portrayals of hand-to-hand violence - some blood and detail
• Brief portrayal of a surgical procedure - some blood and detail
• Infrequent portrayals of alcohol use, smoking, and illegal substance use, some in an addiction context - some detail

Thematic elements

• Gender and power
• The drive to succeed
• Morality and honesty

Classification rationale

Rated 14A for coarse language and substance abuse in a dramatic context

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