The plot: Former world champion tennis player Bobby Riggs
(Steve Carell) makes a public bet: $100,000 to any female player that can beat
him on the court. Billie Jean King (Emma Stone), as a means to show that female
tennis players deserve equal pay as the men, accepts the bet. With Riggs’ media
circus hyping up the main event, and King trying to juggle her professional
life with her blooming attraction to hairdresser Marilyn (Andrea Riseborough),
the stakes are set for what would become one of the most famous sporting events
in history.
