🎬 Movie

Second Serve

Name: Second Serve
Released: 1986
Duration: 120 min
Rating: 4.7
Cast: Vanessa Redgrave, Martin Balsam, William Russ, Alice Krige, Louise Fletcher

📅 1986 ⭐ 4.7 🕐 2h 0m

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Drama TV Movie

Fact-based story about tennis pro Renee Richards, whose player status was challenged in 1976 when it was revealed that she was a trans woman. Flashback to 1964 before she was out as trans, a successful New York doctor with a great lifestyle, a flashy girl friend, and a secret life. Her psychiatrist mother refuses to deal with her and sends her to a colleague who diagnoses with a psychotic gender confusion, which he says can be unlearned. After a failed marriage and parenthood, she comes out as trans, with a new life in California.