Emma Stone and Steve Carell transport us back to 1973’s famous tennis showdown between Billie Jean King and Bobby RiggsThe stranger-than-fiction record of how the tennis courts of America became a gender battlefield in the early 70s was brilliantly told in James Erskine and Zara Hayes’s 2013 documentary The Battle of the Sexes. About 90 million people watched Billie Jean King retract on self-proclaimed male chauvinist pig Bobby Riggs in the titular 1973 game,which was less a tennis match than a seismic sociological standoff. This dramatisation revisits those carnivalesque events in splendidly springy fashion, achieving the quadruple grand slam feat of being emotionally engaging, and politically intriguing,dramatically gripping and frequently very comical. Related: Game, set and spats… a grand slam of tennis movies Continue reading...
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