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Molly McKay lives in a mental institution, where she lines her shoes up in neat rows and says very little. When budget cuts force the place to close, her older brother Buck, an advertising executive and a lifelong bachelor, becomes her guardian. The two are estranged, and Molly's arrival disrupts his routines: he struggles to feed her and to manage her hygiene, and when a daycare will not keep her he brings her to the office. Sam, a resident of the institution, visits and suggests Buck have Molly tested for a program where he now works. Molly's neurologist, Susan Brookes, offers another option: an experimental surgery that would implant genetically modified brain cells in Molly's brain, and Buck has to decide.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Molly (1999)
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- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, believing Molly would fail, cut its losses by eliminating the film's marketing budget and released it on airplanes before cinemas. It then played a single weekend in twelve theaters, to meet legal obligations, and grossed only US$17,650 against a $21 million budget.
