The read
Critics rate it 20 points higher than audiences do. It runs a compact 1h 23m.
Synopsis
Tennis star and women’s rights activist Billie Jean King won a total of 12 Grand Slam titles, but the biggest match of her career took place in 1973 against former men’s champion Bobby Riggs, a self-proclaimed male chauvinist pig who declared that, even at the age of 55, he could beat any woman in the world.
Ratings
IMDb6.9/10
Rotten Tomatoes89%
Critics rate it 20 points higher than audiences do.
24 audience votes
Key crew
- James ErskineDirector
- Zara HayesDirector
- James ErskineWriter
Cast
- Billie Jean KingSelf
- Chris EvertSelf
- Bobby RiggsSelf (archive footage)
- Serena WilliamsSelf
- Maria SharapovaSelf
- Bella AbzugSelf (archive footage)
Stills
Themes
tennisfeminismbiographyequalitywomen's issueswomen's rightswinter sportgender equalitygender inequalitysex codegender discrimination