Film
I, Tonya
- Director
- Craig Gillespie
- Certificate
- 15
- Running Time
- 119 mins
An irresistible, blackly comic, Goodfellas-style biopic telling the extraordinary true story of figure skater Tonya Harding (Margot Robbie), who became the first American woman to complete a “triple axel” in competition. But nobody remembers that. What they do remember is the scandal of the 1994 attack on rival and Olympic teammate Nancy Kerrigan, in which she was implicated.
Lars and the Real Girl director Craig Gillespie‘s suitably lurid film frames this strange and compelling tale with mockumentary-style present day interviews with a variety of unreliable narrators. A white trash kid bullied by her frightful old bat of a mother (the ever-splendid Allison Janney), hugely talented, potty-mouthed skater Tonya marries abusive dimwit Jeff Gillooly (Sebastian Stan) and horrifies the snooty world of figure skating by failing to conform to the wholesome image they want to present to the world. Then comes “the incident” – one of the dumbest conspiracies ever enacted by a cast of idiots – that leads to tabloid infamy. Go here for our full review.
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