Battle of the Sexes

He made a bet. She made history.

The electrifying 1973 tennis match between World number one Billie Jean King and ex-champ and serial hustler Bobby Riggs was billed as The Battle of the Sexes and became one of the most watched televised sports events of all time. The match caught the zeitgeist and sparked a global conversation on gender equality, spurring on the feminist movement. Trapped in the media glare, King and Riggs were on opposite sides of a binary argument, but off-court each was fighting more personal and complex battles. Together, Billie and Bobby served up a cultural spectacle that resonated far beyond the tennis courts and animated the discussions between men and women in bedrooms and boardrooms around the world.

122 minutes.
Parental Guidance 10-12 (Prejudice).
Biographical, Comedy, Drama, Sports, On the art circuit

Showtimes

This game is a racket.

Credits

Cast	Emma Stone, Steve Carell, Andrea Riseborough, Natalie Morales, Sarah Silverman, Bill Pullman, Alan Cumming, Elisabeth Shue
Director	Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris
Screenplay	Simon Beaufoy
Music	Nicholas Britell
Cinematography	Linus Sandgren
Editing	Pamela Martin
Sound formats	Dolby Digital, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, DTS
Soundtrack	Available
SA distributor	Times Media Films
Made in	2017
Produced by	Cloud Eight Films, Decibel Films, Fox Searchlight Pictures, TSG Entertainment

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Film and Publications Board (FPB) Report (SA)

Genre	Sports drama
Language	None
Nudity	None
Sex	None
Violence	None
Prejudice	Low impact, fairly frequent, justified by context.
Blasphemy	None
Drug abuse	None
Comments
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USA MPAA rating

PG-13: Parents Strongly Cautioned	Rated PG-13 for some sexual content and partial nudity
Runtime	121
USA version is usually but not always the same as South African release. Versions released on streaming or DVD, Blu-ray or Video may also differ.

ScreenIt Report (USA)

Sex / Nudity	Violence	Blood / Gore / Gross
Guns / Weapons	Profanity	Alcohol / Drugs
Smoking	Disrespectful / Bad Attitude	Imitative Behaviour
Frightening / Tense Scenes	Jump Scenes	Tense Family Scenes
Music (Scary/Tense)	Music (Inappropriate)	Topics to talk about

CommonSenseMedia Report (USA)

Suggested age limit 14 +	Positive messages	Positive role models
Violence	Sex	Language
Consumerism	Drinking, drugs, smoking

Ratings

Scale (Max)	20
What the Critics say
24.com Alex Isaacs I think everyone should go watch this movie, it’s worth the price of a ticket or two and even though we all know who wins in the battle of the sexes the ending will still make you smile.	15
Metacritic.com 44 critics	15
Rottentomatoes critics 202 critics	14
Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer Battle of the Sexes turns real-life events into a crowd-pleasing, well-acted dramedy that ably entertains while smartly serving up a volley of present-day parallels.	17
Movie Review Query Engine MRQE critics	14
CommonSenseMedia Staff evaluation Moving dramedy serves up sexism, sexuality; lots of smoking.	15
What the People say
Metacritic.com users 42 users	12
Rottentomatoes users 13099 users	14
IMDB 4940 Netizens Good Fun Entertainment	14
The Movie DB Community	14
Average .. 72%	14