King Richard

Every Friday is “Movie Night” in our household, and last Friday at my partner, Jen’s, suggestion we watched King Richard. I can certainly recommend that anyone who has a burgeoning young athlete (as we do) in the house check it out.

The film is generally everything you would expect from a biopic about Venus and Serena Williams starring Will Smith. What’s probably the most intriguing about their story is that he pulls them completely out of the limelight and from any competition for a number of years just as they’re starting to attract attention in the Tennis world, basically to avoid the burn out and destructiveness that fame can have on young people who aren’t prepared for it and what it brings.

The film also pinnacles with Venus Williams losing a match and having to remember how amazing that she was even able to hold her own at all in the match considering she was in her first pro tournament and playing against the number one ranked player in the world.

I did some ratings before, but I think that I won’t do them anymore.