Emma Stone and Steve Carell headline Battle Of The Sexes. Here's our review...
It’s hard for a film about gender equality released in 2017 to escape the context of the real world and the fighting that’s still necessary. Battle Of The Sexes could easily have come across, by accident or not, too worthy or like a watered-down history lesson, but instead the film is an admirably warm and light hearted drama that cares as much about its characters as their position in our collectively-written narrative.
Chronicling the rivalry between champion tennis player Billie Jean King (Emma Stone) and self-styled ‘male chauvinist pig’ Bobby Riggs (Steve Carell), Battle Of The Sexes takes place in the ‘70s at a time when women’s tennis was very much looked down upon by the wider public. When Riggs challenges King to a match, the contest grows to represent a much larger, and universal,...
It’s hard for a film about gender equality released in 2017 to escape the context of the real world and the fighting that’s still necessary. Battle Of The Sexes could easily have come across, by accident or not, too worthy or like a watered-down history lesson, but instead the film is an admirably warm and light hearted drama that cares as much about its characters as their position in our collectively-written narrative.
Chronicling the rivalry between champion tennis player Billie Jean King (Emma Stone) and self-styled ‘male chauvinist pig’ Bobby Riggs (Steve Carell), Battle Of The Sexes takes place in the ‘70s at a time when women’s tennis was very much looked down upon by the wider public. When Riggs challenges King to a match, the contest grows to represent a much larger, and universal,...
- 11/23/2017
- Den of Geek
If you’re over age 50, you likely recall the Billie Jean King-Bobby Riggs tennis match from 1973, a feminist landmark and time-capsule of male chauvinist history that attracted one of the biggest audiences ever for a sporting event at that time. Over 100 million worldwide watched the 29-year old Number 2 ranked women’s champion take on the 55-year old former men’s champ in a $100,000 tournament that’s now been dramatized in Battle Of The Sexes, a flawed but mostly entertaining look at a repressive time when women athletes weren’t taken seriously and ‘lesbian’ was a dirty word.
Loudmouth hustler and gambling addict Bobby Riggs (Steve Carrel), was a self-confessed ‘male chauvinist pig’ even though he lived off the family money of his second wife Priscilla (Elizabeth Shue). Riggs had been a tennis champ decades earlier and was still active on the senior circuit in the early ‘70s. He...
Loudmouth hustler and gambling addict Bobby Riggs (Steve Carrel), was a self-confessed ‘male chauvinist pig’ even though he lived off the family money of his second wife Priscilla (Elizabeth Shue). Riggs had been a tennis champ decades earlier and was still active on the senior circuit in the early ‘70s. He...
- 9/29/2017
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Forty-four years ago this month, Billie Jean King, one of the top female tennis players of all time, beat Bobby Riggs, a retired former #1 player in the men’s circuit, in front of an estimated worldwide audience of 90 million people.
Besides sending the cocksure and (admittedly) chauvinistic Riggs into a depression, the match, which some dismissed as a publicity stunt, would go on to be remembered as a symbolic achievement for women in a decade of tremendous social progress.
Now, the story behind the game, and the changes it helped inspire, is on the big screen in Battle of the Sexes,...
Besides sending the cocksure and (admittedly) chauvinistic Riggs into a depression, the match, which some dismissed as a publicity stunt, would go on to be remembered as a symbolic achievement for women in a decade of tremendous social progress.
Now, the story behind the game, and the changes it helped inspire, is on the big screen in Battle of the Sexes,...
- 9/28/2017
- by Mike Miller
- PEOPLE.com
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