Challengers (2024)

Directed by

Luca Guadagnino

Genre

romance film, comedy drama, sport film

Country

United States

Runtime

2h 11m

Rated

R

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 2,729 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A love triangle between a tennis champion, his wife who coaches him, and her ex-boyfriend unfolds over 13 years. The story builds toward a match between the two men on the professional challenger circuit.

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What happens

Challengers is a 2024 American-Italian romantic sports film directed by Luca Guadagnino and written by Justin Kuritzkes. It follows the love triangle between an injured tennis star-turned-coach (Zendaya), her low-circuit tennis player ex-boyfriend (Josh O'Connor), and her tennis champion husband (Mike Faist) across 13 years of their relationship, culminating in the match between the two men on the ATP Challenger Tour. Kuritzkes' screenplay was acquired by MGM in February 2022, with the main cast and Guadagnino being hired shortly after; Zendaya, O'Connor, and Faist trained for months with former tennis player and coach Brad Gilbert to prepare for their roles. Principal photography ran from May to June 2022, primarily in Boston. Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, who previously worked with Guadagnino on Call Me by Your Name (2017) and Suspiria (2018), served as cinematographer. Delayed from an initial September 2023 release in response to the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike, Challengers premiered in Sydney on March 26, 2024, and was theatrically released in the United States by Amazon MGM Studios one month later. It grossed $96 million worldwide and received critical acclaim. Among the film's accolades were four nominations at the 82nd Golden Globe Awards (including Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy), where it won Best Original Score. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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