![]() Director Eric Drath does a very good job at showing all sides of this story. Seeing the two brought together at the end was just downright depressing. Of course, there's no way to deny the fact that she hurt a lot of the people around here and this includes her son who was abused by kids at school over his "dad" being a woman and it's had a lasting impact on him to this day. I will admit that at times I was shocked by the subject matter, at times disgusted but at the end of the film I couldn't help but feel some sympathy for Renee and everything she went through. The documentary covers her life as a man, the eventual sex change, the controversy with playing tennis and it also shows where she is now. I think it's fair to say that the only thing she did win was being able to do what she wanted without having to bow down to anyone else. However, as the film also points out, she never became a superstar, never won a major title and in the end it really cost her a whole lot more than it ever got her. ![]() I guess everyone is going to have an opinion on whether or not it was fair for a former man to be playing in the women's league but in my own personal opinion, just from seeing the clips here, there's no question that Renee had an advantage. I watch quite a bit of tennis and have done so for well over a decade but I had never heard this story so all of the events here were new to me. At first as Renee she wanted to stay out of the limelight but this all changed after she attempted to play professional tennis. Richard Raskin who in the 70s was a highly respected surgeon but after getting married and having a child he had a sex change and became Renee Richards. Renee (2011) *** 1/2 (out of 4) Even though ESPN's "30 for 30" series ended it hasn't stopped the company from delivering some hard hitting stories.
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