Challengers

Tennis prodigy Tashi Duncan’s ambitious and alluring personality arouses the attention of best friends and tennis prospects Art and Patrick, who begin vying for her affection. As a love triangle develops, Tashi and Patrick form a relationship, but it is Art who comforts her when she suffers a career-ending injury. They marry and she coaches him into a leading tennis player, vicariously living her lost career through him.

Years later and Art’s form has taken a dive. Tashi enters him into a Challenger event so he can rediscover his confidence, but across the net he sees Patrick, who hopes to revitalise a stagnating career. Feelings inflame as the past and present collide. Patrick isn’t afraid to test Tashi and Art’s relationship to gain an advantage, while Tashi is willing to do whatever it takes to guarantee success.

Zendaya gives a magnetic performance in this romantic sports drama where the heady and emotional game of desire is just as intense as the contest on the court.

“A funny, tempestuous, and exuberantly lusty story” The New Yorker

“a refreshingly sincere and uncynical movie” Vanity Fair

“an entertaining movie thanks to its complicated characters who are played by actors on their way to becoming sparkling screen stars.” AV Club

“there’s no doubt Challengers is hands down one of the best and sexiest movies of the year.” Mashable

15: strong language, sex, sex references