Miss Sloane

“Make sure you surprise them.”

Elizabeth Sloane (Jessica Chastain) is a Washington lobbyist known for winning, and she leaves her powerful firm to take on the gun lobby in a push for new gun control legislation. Her small new team, including Esme Manucharian (Gugu Mbatha-Raw), is outmatched in money and influence from the start. John Madden films the capital as a series of tense rooms where every conversation is a move.