We were was waist- deep in Watergate. Spiro Agnew was about to resign. The OPEC- fueled energy crisis loomed. Americans needed a diversion. Enter Bobby Riggs and Billie Jean King. Fast- forward nearly half a century, and boy could we use some escapism today. That said, here’s the first trailer for Battle of the Sexes,Fox Searchlight recounting of the tennis match that pitted the tennis pro/hustler and admitted male chauvinist Riggs (Steve Carell) against the world’s greatest female player in King (Emma Stone), who also happened to be a devout feminist.

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Their faceoff on the court was equal parts sport and theater, held in the sprawling Astrodome with a global TV audience of some 9. And what it meant for women’s tennis — and women’s sports in general — cannot be overstated. Romance Movies Download Trainwreck (2015). Fox Searchlight“I’m not saying that women don’t belong on the court,” the sideburned Riggs tells a TV interviewer, setting up yet another sexist crack.

Advantage King. Little Miss Sunshine. The film also stars Elisabeth Shue, Sarah Silverman, Alan Cumming, Andrea Riseborough, Eric Christian Olsen, Natalie Morales, Austin Stowell, Wallace Langham, Jessica Mc. Namee, Mickey Sumner and. Bill Pullman. Check out the trailer, dig the period- correct costumes, atmosphere and Elton John’s “Funeral for a Friend/Loves Lies Bleeding” — presumably on 8- track — and the poster below.

Free subtitles in all languages. Large database of subtitles for movies, TV series and anime. Find a movie! A new trailer is here for Borg vs. McEnroe, the Swedish-made movie about the famous 1980 tennis match between Bjorn Borg and John McEnroe. Watch the first trailer for 'Battle of the Sexes,' starring Steve Carell as Bobby Riggs and Emma Stone as Billie Jean King for director Simon Beaufoy.

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Directed by Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris. With Emma Stone, Steve Carell, Elisabeth Shue, Bill Pullman. The true story of the 1973 tennis match between World number. Gum-chewing frizzy-haired gold-digger Marie Skinner cooks up a scheme with her lover Babe Winsor, a jazz hound, to fleece a portly, middle-aged real estate tycoon.