Sentences with phrase «leading figure skaters»

In January 1994, a nervous - looking man walked into a Detroit ice rink and violently attacked one of America's leading figure skaters with a police baton.

Not exact matches

A closeup shot of Tonya Harding's skate crushing a lit cigarette serves as a visual representation of the figure skater as a whole in I, Tonya, a biography of her life and the events that led to her controversial end in the sport.

The two portrayed figure skaters whose bitter rivalry leads to a much - publicized brawl at the Olympics, stripping them of their medals; the men subsequently decide to reattain their old glory by re-entering the Olympic competition as a figure - skating pair.

And yet, despite those observable similarities, it was announced early last year that Margot Robbie would star as Tonya Harding in director Craig Gillespie's I, Tonya, a fictionalized depiction of the fallen former American Olympic figure skater who, in 1994, was connected to an attack on her rival, Nancy Kerrigan, leading to the totally frenzied and unjust trial - by - media of Harding.

The film doesn't offer a straight - up biopic of the figure skater, nor does it attempt to tell the definitive story of what led to the attack on fellow skater Nancy Kerrigan — the incident that eventually got Harding banned for life by the U.S. Figure Skating Associfigure skater, nor does it attempt to tell the definitive story of what led to the attack on fellow skater Nancy Kerrigan — the incident that eventually got Harding banned for life by the U.S. Figure Skating AssociFigure Skating Association.

There's a quick montage early on in I, Tonya — the Margot Robbie - led biopic of former Olympic figure skater Tonya Harding — where her mother (Allison Janney) runs the gamut of abuse.

Robbie is simply sensational, as she delivers a fearless and sympathetic portrayal of a young figure skater who rose to fame in the early 90's, before she found herself being led into dark places by the people around her.

Answering our call was Annette Bening, who plays former Hollywood leading lady Gloria Grahame romantically linked to a much younger man in her final years in «Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool»; Jessica Chastain, who plays real - life poker entrepreneur Molly Bloom targeted by the FBI in «Molly's Game»; Diane Kruger, who won the Cannes film festival's top acting prize for her portrayal of a woman whose husband and child have been killed by terrorists in «In the Fade»; Margot Robbie, who stars as disgraced figure skater Tonya Harding in the quirky «I, Tonya»; Saoirse Ronan, as a Sacramento teen looking for her place in the world in «Lady Bird»; and Kate Winslet, who stars in Woody Allen's 1950s Coney Island drama «Wonder Wheel.»

I, Tonya, which takes a surprisingly comic approach to the figure skater's life story, is framed by interviews with its leading players.

These factors — Harding's redneck upbringing, her mother's relentlessness, Gillooly's, well, Gilloolyness — swirls and forms a sort of inevitability that leads to the incident we know Harding for, the clubbing of rival skater Nancy Kerrigan's knee at the 1994 U.S. Figure Skating Championships at Cobo Arena in Detroit.

Figure skater Mirai Nagasu's name was on everyone's lips during the 2018 Winter Games, where she became the first American woman to land a triple axel in the Winter Olympics, leading her team to a bronze medal win.

You might remember the brouhaha leading up to the 1994 Winter Olympics, in which someone assaulted figure skater Nancy Kerrigan with a metal baton.

I, Tonya looks to tell the story of disgraced figure skater Tonya Harding, and it's picked the right actor for the lead role.

Biopic about the American figure skater Tonya Harding and her relationship with Jeff Gillooly, who orchestrated a brutal attack on rival skater Nancy Kerrigan in the lead up to the 1994 Winter Olympics.

The true story of the disgraced figure skater Tonya Harding will also head to the festival, with Margot Robbie in the lead.

Led by an amazing performance by the very talented Margot Robbie, I, Tonya is a wildly entertaining black comedy and biopic of American figure skater Tonya Harding, a former U.S. Champion best known for her involvement in a 1994 incident in which fellow skater Nancy Kerrigan was attacked at the Cobo Arena with a police baton.

The infamous former figure skater is the subject of an upcoming Craig Gillespie biopic, set to hit theaters in December, with Margot Robbie playing lead

«I, Tonya» At turns hilarious and heart - breaking, this gonzo retelling of the circumstances leading up to the 1994 attack on Olympic figure skater Nancy Kerrigan opens with the claim, «Based on irony free, wildly contradictory, totally true interviews with Tonya Harding and Jeff Gillooly,» suggesting a toxic kind of irreverence toward the scandal it depicts.