I, Tonya (2017)

Release date: 2018-01-19
Country: UK|USA|Qatar
Language: English
Director: Craig Gillespie
Production Co: AI-Film, Clubhouse Pictures (II), Georgia Film, Music & Digital Entertainment Office
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Biography
Rating: 7.5/10
Length: 2h

Storyline

From the proverbial wrong side of the tracks in Portland, Oregon, former competitive figure skater Tonya Harding was never fully accepted in the figure skating community for not inherently being the image of grace, breeding and privilege that the community wanted to portray, despite she being naturally gifted in the sport athletically. Despite ultimately garnering some success in figure skating being national champion, a world championship medalist, an Olympian, and being the first American woman to complete a Triple Axel in competition, she is arguably best known for her association to "the incident": the leg bashing on January 6, 1994 of her competitor, Nancy Kerrigan, who, unlike Tonya, was everything that the figure skating community wanted in their representatives. Her association to that incident led to Tonya being banned from competitive figure skating for life. Tonya's story from the beginning of her figure skating life at age four to the aftermath of the incident is presented...

Plot Keywords

ice skating, abuse, violence, domestic violence, based on true story, violence against a woman, abusive mother, competition, mother daughter relationship, assault, sexism, based on real person, betrayal, wedding, year 1992, breaking the fourth wall, police, abusive woman, nudity, cfnm

Short Review

It leaves a sense of several stronger movies half-buried beneath a mish-mash of the poignantly heart-rending and the outlandishly farcical, and just about salvaged from mediocrity by its one sensational turn.