The movie "Miss Sloane," from French distributor EuropaCorp, starring Jessica Chastain, rolled out in early December — which means the producers figured it had a good chance to be a big Christmas hit in America, up there with the latest "Star Wars" entry.

Maybe they were hoping it'd get a big push from President-Elect Hillary Clinton.

The movie casts the actress as Elizabeth Sloane, a Washington lobbyist who finds herself taking on the evil "gun lobby" as she pushes for "universal background checks."

The film's English director, John Madden, explains the movie (scripted by another Englishman, Jonathan Perera) highlights "the fallacy that any form of gun regulation is a slippery slope to confiscation."