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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
Vanessa Redgrave | Martin Balsam | William Russ | Alice Krige | Louise Fletcher | Kerrie Keane | Richard Venture | Reni Santoni | Jeff Corey | Alan Feinstein | Nina van Pallandt | Michael Cavanaugh | Kenneth Tigar | Alison La Placa | Ray Girardin | James Victor | Gerry Gibson | Michael Harrington | Mews Small | Whit Hertford | Keri Houlihan | Bunny Summers | Camila Ashland | Richard Newton | Santos Morales | James Ingersoll | Eunice Christopher