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On the Line: The Richard Williams Story

On the Line: The Richard Williams Story (2022)

June. 12,2022

7.6

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Told in his own words using interviews spanning from the 1980s through now, father and tennis coach Richard Williams retraces his family's journey from the courts in Compton to the grass at Wimbledon, defying every custom of the lily-white tennis establishment and fighting back against a system of oppression to raise two of the greatest champions in history - Venus and Serena Williams.

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Richard Williams as Self

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Reviews

Smartorhypo

2022/06/12

Highly Overrated But Still Good

Ava-Grace Willis

2022/06/13

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

Rosie Searle

2022/06/14

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Philippa

2022/06/15

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.