Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Margot Robbie | ... | Tonya | |
Sebastian Stan | ... | Jeff | |
Allison Janney | ... | LaVona | |
Julianne Nicholson | ... | Diane Rawlinson | |
Paul Walter Hauser | ... | Shawn | |
Bobby Cannavale | ... | Martin Maddox | |
Bojana Novakovic | ... | Dody Teachman | |
Caitlin Carver | ... | Nancy Kerrigan | |
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Maizie Smith | ... | Tonya (3 1 / 2 Yrs) |
Mckenna Grace | ... | Tonya (8-12 Yrs) | |
Suehyla El-Attar | ... | Skater Mom | |
Jason Davis | ... | Al | |
Mea Allen | ... | Snooty Girl | |
Cory Chapman | ... | Chris | |
Amy Fox | ... | Skating Judge |
From the proverbial wrong side of the tracks in Portland, Oregon, former competitive figure skater Tonya Harding was never fully accepted in the figure skating community for not inherently being the image of grace, breeding and privilege that the community wanted to portray, despite she being naturally gifted in the sport athletically. Despite ultimately garnering some success in figure skating being national champion, a world championship medalist, an Olympian, and being the first American woman to complete a Triple Axel in competition, she is arguably best known for her association to "the incident": the leg bashing on January 6, 1994 of her competitor, Nancy Kerrigan, who, unlike Tonya, was everything that the figure skating community wanted in their representatives. Her association to that incident led to Tonya being banned from competitive figure skating for life. Tonya's story from the beginning of her figure skating life at age four to the aftermath of the incident is presented... Written by Huggo
I was going to make a list of people who made extraordinary things during the same period that Tonya Harding monopolized the headlines but then I thought it was a pointless exercise. Charles Manson will always be more famous, much more than Sharon Tate. That's the world we live in or maybe it always was. The sadness verging on horror of of the Tonya Harding story will win, fascination wise, than any kind of kindness from anyone anywhere. Now that out of my system let me say that I Tonya is an entertaining harrowing tale directed by Craig Gillespie and his extraordinary cinematographer Nicholas Karakatsanis with, clearly, Martin Scorsese in their minds and hearts. Margot Robbie is terrific and Sebastian Stan as the husband from hell, superb but it's Allison Janney that creates a character that is impossible to take and irresistible at the same time. She is spectacular. So, that's more than enough to recommend I Tonya but if the Tabloid Times is something you subscribe I will highly recommend Gus Van Sant's To Die For and Michael Ritchie's made for television The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom.