Second Serve
MovieTitle | Second Serve |
User score | 5.4 |
Release date | Jan 1, 1986 |
Genre | Drama, TV Movie |
Director | Anthony Page |
Production country | United States of America |
Production companies | Lorimar Telepictures |
Run time | 120 min. |
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.