<em>King Richard</em> Is an Unconventional Sports Biopic
The movie functions best as a clear-eyed tribute to the man who put Venus and Serena Williams on their path.
by David Sims
Nov 17, 2021
3 minutes
The protagonist of Reinaldo Marcus Green’s new film, , is, to put it mildly, an unconventional networker. Driving around Los Angeles in a ramshackle VW bus, Richard Williams (played by Will Smith) is focused on finding a coach for his daughters, whom he is hell-bent on molding into tennis prodigies. But his hiring approach amounts to showing up on the doorstep of locally renowned trainers and hounding them for attention, giving out handmade pamphlets touting his daughters’ stats and proposing that they get coached for
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