1972. La championne de tennis Billie Jean King remporte trois titres du Grand Chelem. Mais loin de se satisfaire de son palmarès, elle s'engage dans un combat pour que les femmes soient aussi respectées que les hommes sur les courts de tennis. C'est alors que l'ancien numéro un mondial Bobby Riggs, profondément misogyne et provocateur, met Billie Jean au défi de l'affronter en match simple….
Amusing sketches and musical standup routines about the differences between men and women..
Un biopic sur la joueuse de tennis Billie Jean King, connue pour son combat en faveur du droit des femmes et son match contre le joueur Bobby Riggs. En 1973, âgée de 29 ans, elle affronte dans un match Bobby Riggs, âgé de 55 ans, qui déclarait que le tennis masculin était supérieur au tennis féminin. Elle remporta largement la rencontre donnant ainsi une gifle à la vanité masculine..
Femme d'affaire aussi redoutable que séduisante, l'américaine Angela Barrows est envoyée par son employeur à Edimbourg pour enquêter sur les possibilités d'exportation. En chemin, elle rencontre Robert MacPherson, un homme venant tout juste d'hériter de l'entreprise de textile de son père, et qui la persuade de l'aider à moderniser son affaire. Une fois sur place, Angela se trouve confrontée à Mr Martin, un membre de l'équipe aux méthodes très conservatrices qui s'oppose fermement à toutes les innovations qu'elle propose..
Frank Andrews is a successful businessman. He has always found pride and joy in the company of his wife, son and daughter. He suddenly finds himself enthralled by the advances of a gay young woman siren, who lives in the same apartment house as he does. So marked an influence does she have over him as time progresses that at last he quite forgets his home ties, neglects his family, and goes the way of many other men who have forgotten the meaning of paternity and blood ties. The story is advanced through many scenes enacted with the accompanying notes of New York's night life, and the denouement comes when the faithful wife discovers her husband's infidelity. At this time the mother's mind nearly loses balance, while Jane, the beautiful daughter, crazed by the grief of her mother, determines to take part in the tragedy. With revolver in hand she steals up to the apartment of the woman, but her frail nature is overcome by the temperamental anger of the woman and her mission fails..
The sexual behaviour and intriguing reproductive strategies of the animal world..
Gum-chewing frizzy-haired golddigger Marie Skinner cooks up a scheme with her lover Babe Winsor, a jazz hound, to fleece a portly middle-aged real estate tycoon, William Judson. Marie moves into Judson's apartment building and contrives to meet and seduce him, plying him with compliments, music, swoons, décolletage, and batted eyes. When his loyal wife (and their two children) see him out catting with Marie at a night club, mom's devastated and confronts him. He moves out. Babe wants Marie to sell Judson worthless bonds. Will mom commit suicide? Will sis shoot the floozy? Will pops figure out he's being a fool?.
The story of an unemployed journalist who fights overweight and account shortages more effectively than Bridget Jones, and although she knows a lot about men, finding the right one will require a lot of effort. Especially that her adult daughter not only ruthlessly judges her actions, but also counts on her mother's advice in her love affairs..
In the national limelight Bobby Riggs taunted all female tennis players, prompting Billie Jean King to accept a lucrative financial offer to play Riggs in a nationally televised match that the promoters dubbed the "Battle of the Sexes"..
Pour venger son père, abandonné par sa femme au profit d'un directeur de lycée pervers et proxénète, la jeune Mirai infiltre l'établissement scolaire, prête à défaire la ceinture de chasteté qui abrite son arme la plus terrifiante !.
Nobody knows what can happen with each of us tomorrow at dawn. Three our heroes woke up on a desert island in the company of two beautiful... but not very friendly girls... with no water and food... This was where they started to realize that life is really full of surprises!.
Both a visit to a very peculiar exhibition at the Bundeswehr Military History Museum in Dresden, Germany, as well as an unprejudiced look at the artistic depiction of violence throughout history and the ways in which that depiction has been gendered..
