Battle of the Sexes Review
The movie Battle of the Sexes tells the story of the classic tennis match in 1973 between female tennis challenger Billie Jean King and retired male tennis champion Bobby Riggs, who believed that even though he had been out of the game for a few years, he would still be able to defeat a woman. The film stars actress Emma Stone as King, while Riggs is portrayed by Steve Carell, both of whom are very well-known from their other works. However, the thing that struck me as odd before even watching the movie was that the film only had a budget of $25 million, a pretty small amount by Hollywood standards. Compared to the budgets of the other films that Stone and Carell have been a part of, ranging from around $60 million all the way up to $175 million when adjusted for inflation, it made me wonder what they were doing in a fairly low budget movie like this one, which I will come back to later on. The basic plot of the movie is that Billie Jean King is winning a nu...
