Challengers is a 2024 American romantic sports drama film
directed by Luca Guadagnino from a screenplay by Justin Ku-ritzkes. It follows a professional tennis champion (Mike Faist) who plots a comeback with the help of his wife (Zendaya), a former tennis prodigy who retired after an injury, as he goes up against another player (Josh O'Connor), who also happens to be his former best friend and wife's former lover.
Tennis prodigy turned coach Tashi has taken her husband, Art and transformed him into a world-famous grand slam champion. To jolt him out of his recent losing streak, she makes him play a “Challenger” event — close to the lowest level of pro tournament — where he finds himself standing
across the net from his former best friend and Tashi’s former boyfriend .
Every shot is a serve, every montage a volley. There’s even part of one match done from the point-of-view of a ball being smacked to-and-fro at high speed. It’s extravagantly goofy. But it’s also hilarious and wonderful, because it’s an objective correlative for how far the film will go to entertain you. There’s a lively cinematic sub-genre that deconstructs the rise and fall of a relationship by jumping around in time, and there are many spectacularly blocked, framed, and edited scenes of athletic competition that, taken together,
feel like a tennis fan’s answer to a boxing picture.

Run time: 2h 11m

MPA Rating: R

General Admission: $11.30 + HST

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