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  1. Sep 22, 2017 · Movies. Movie News. ‘Battle of the Sexes’: 8 of the Film’s Stars and Their Real-Life Inspirations. The movie about the highly publicized tennis match digs deep into the personal storylines...

    • Katherine Schaffstall
  2. Battle of the Sexes is a 2017 sports film directed by Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton and written by Simon Beaufoy. The plot is loosely based on the 1973 tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs .

  3. Sep 19, 2017 · How Billie Jean King Made Women’s Sports History at the “Battle of the Sexes” Fifty years ago, Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs faced off in a tennis match that proved women were capable...

    • colin.mcevoy@hearst.com
    • Senior News Editor, Biography.Com
  4. Ninety million people tuned into “The Battle of the Sexes,” and 44 years later Emma Stone and Steve Carrell are bringing the match to the big screen. The movie details both the on-court...

  5. September 22, 2017. Billie Jean King (Emma Stone) and Bobby Riggs (Steve Carell) right before the famous match in Battle of the Sexes . Fox Searchlight. “I underestimated you” were the...

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  7. Sep 19, 2017 · The so-called “battle of the sexes” of Sept. 20, 1973, which pitted Bobby Riggs against Billie Jean King, was over in three straight sets and just a little more than two hours.

  8. 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. Read Critics Reviews...

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    • Comedy, Drama
    • PG-13