Mix Blades of Glory with Best in Show and a few scenes from any overly dramatic sports documentary, and you’ll end up with something akin to 7 Days in Hell, the mockumentary starring Andy Samberg and Kit Harington. The former plays Aaron Williams, the adopted brother of Venus and Serena Williams (who stars as a talking head) and the “bad boy of tennis”. Harington is the rather more uptight, and stupid, British player Charles Poole who is preparing to face off against Williams, but doesn’t have a strategy because he… doesn’t know what that word means. With an eclectic cast that includes Lena Dunham, June Squibb, John McEnroe and, um, magician David Copperfield, this is truly the unsung hero of tennis movies.
Battle of the Sexes (2017)
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This critically acclaimed offering tells the true story of tennis champion Billie Jean King, played by Emma Stone, and former Wimbledon winner Bobby Riggs (Steve Carrell), whose highly publicised 1973 exhibition match became a pivotal moment in tennis history. We see King campaign for equal pay and recognition in women’s tennis, accepting Riggs’s challenge to prove that female athletes can compete on the same stage as men. While Wimbledon introduced equal prize money for men and women in 2007, more than half a century on male players still out-earn their female peers.
