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Battle of the Sexes (2017)

★ 6.8 · 1,952 ratings on TMDB

He made a bet. She made history.

Battle of the Sexes poster★ 6.8

The true story of the 1973 tennis match between world number one Billie Jean King and ex-champ and serial hustler Bobby Riggs.

DirectorJonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris
CastAlan Cumming, Andrea Riseborough, Austin Stowell, Bill Pullman, Elisabeth Shue, Emma Stone
GenresComedy, Drama, History
The emergence reading

Battle of the Sexes keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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