Starting in 2004, and running until she was charged in 2013, Bloom first managed and then ran her own underground high stakes poker tournaments for Hollywood celebrities, sports figures, politicians, Wall Street moguls, and even Russian mobsters. According to the author and the subject of the film, Molly Bloom, the facts as presented on screen, as wild as they are, really did happen.

Season 2 has the Versace family screaming that everything about their son Gianni that is portrayed on screen is utter fiction. Simpson trial was refocused through lenses of racism and sexism, making prosecutor Marcia Clark a central and sympathetic figure. We saw that with the first season of American Crime Story, where the O.J. Most 'true crime' adaptations for any size screen takes some liberties to tell a better story, even if it's just reangling the way the story is told. The latter advertises itself as a true crime film, based on the autobiography of Molly Bloom, a high stakes poker 'entrepreneur.' But how real is Molly's Game? Ever since the podcast Serial became a surprise hit in 2014, small and large screens have run to jump on the bandwagon, from Ryan Murphy's American Crime Story series on FX, to Molly's Game in the movie theaters. The 'true crime' genre has been making a ferocious comeback this decade.

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