Ms Chastain tends to pick strong women roles, many times based on real women, as in Molly Bloom. We are all the more richer for her superb acting too. Molly was willing to give everything up, because her own name was the only thing she had left. Idris Elba gives a strong performance as the attorney willing to take her case. I enjoyed Kevin Costner as her father and Whitney Peak as the bright daughter of Elba's attorney.