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Second Serve (1986)
Directed by Anthony Page
Overview
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.
Length 120 minutes
Actors
William Russ | Martin Balsam | Alice Krige | Louise Fletcher | Jeff Corey | Vanessa Redgrave | Reni Santoni | Nina van Pallandt | Bunny Summers | Santos Morales | James Victor | Kenneth Tigar | Richard Venture | Michael Cavanaugh | Ray Girardin | Alan Feinstein | Mews Small | Whit Hertford | Richard Newton | Keri Houlihan | Kerrie Keane | Alison La Placa | Camila Ashland | Gerry Gibson | James Ingersoll | Michael Harrington | Eunice Christopher