It seems that every movie vying for Oscar gold this fall is going to show up somewhere in the next six to eight weeks, either at festivals in Telluride, Venice, Toronto or New York City. But there are always a handful that arrive late in the game and tend to shake things up. Could “Miss Sloane” be one them?
Certainly, the potential is there, with John Madden (“Shakespeare In Love“) directing the always terrific, two-time Oscar nominee Jessica Chastain in this thriller about a lobbyist working the high-powered corridors of Washington, D.C. Here’s the official synopsis:
MISS SLOANE is the story a ruthless lobbyist (Jessica Chastain) who is notorious for her unparalleled talent and her desire to win at all costs, even when it puts her own career at risk. The thriller pulls back the curtain on how Capitol Hill games are played and won as Sloane faces off against the most influential powers in D.C.
Co-starring Mark Strong, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Michael Stuhlbarg, Alison Pill, Jake Lacy, Sam Waterston, and John Lithgow, “Miss Sloane” opens on December 9th.
