Billie Jean King (Emma Stone) is at the top of her sport but finds her real competition is the inherent misogyny behind the scenes. While she is campaigning for equal pay, founding her own women's league, and participating in a national championship tour, former men's tennis champion and current inveterate gambler, Bobby Riggs (Steve Carrell), calls her up with a proposition: an exhibition match billed as the ultimate battle of the sexes.
This was pretty fun. A nice easy watch. You don't have to know anything about tennis to enjoy it, although I'm sure that would have helped. Carrell is great as the loud, larger-than-life Riggs, playing against Stone's straight-woman act. The actual villain is Bill Pullman, who is smarmy and unctuous while being quietly enraged that these broads are demanding to be treated as equals. And it was nice to see Lewis Pullman in an early role.
It's currently streaming on HBO Max.
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