Battle of the Sexes is a buoyant piece of propaganda about a buoyant, propagandistic episode in American culture: the 1973 tennis match between 55-year-old Bobby Riggs a self-proclaimed chauvinist pig who crowed that women shouldnt play on the same courts as men and 29-year-old Billie Jean King, a crusader for womens rights and a budding lesbian. (Married to a man, King had just begun to acknowledge her attraction to women in private.) Directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris and screenwriter Simon Beaufoy have a clear feminist and gay agenda. The villains are male chauvinists, with the exception of the Aussie player Margaret Court, who can be beat by Riggs the movie implies because shes an ultra-…
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