Althea
Althea
| 14 November 2014 (USA)
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Althea Gibson’s life and achievements transcend sports. A truant from the rough streets of Harlem, Althea emerged as a most unlikely queen of the highly segregated tennis world in the 1950s. Her roots as a sharecropper’s daughter, her family’s migration north to Harlem in the 1930s, mentoring from Sugar Ray Robinson, David Dinkins and others, and fame that thrust her unwillingly into the glare of the early Civil Rights movement, all bring her story into a much broader realm of the American story.

Reviews
filippaberry84 I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.
Murphy Howard I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.
Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.
Kayden This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama
Edward Dougherty I very much enjoy the game of tennis, and particularly enjoy its history, especially its progression in the post-war era, through the Civil Rights realm (throughout the world), and now to a gender-equality battles that continue on. That said, I went in to this film thinking 'specialty content,' 'strictly art house,' and 'interesting only to those who would be interested' sort of sub-genre of film. That's not what happened. What emerged, instead, was a portrait of a very complex character, certainly made more complex and challenging by the times, but who would have been a standout for her persona in almost any era. Far more than a mere 'sports film,' in other words, and with a poignant and very bittersweet ending. A final plug: the film has some very interesting narrators who guide you through the times, the contexts in which Gibson developed her tennis skills, and certainly the way she adapted around the times, which never fully embraced her unique blend of renegade posture and stance with her very keen awareness of how to play to her audience. The narrators become friends almost, not merely recounting how Gibson did this or that but the sometimes tortured way she processed the world around here. A wonderful movie experience in the sense that it fully surprised me and delivered far more than I had calculated it could.