I, Tonya
A fractured sports biography in which athletic performance, public narrative and competing testimony continually reshape one another.
- YEAR
- 2017
- DIRECTOR
- Craig Gillespie
- COUNTRY
- United States
- LENGTH
- 119 min
- SPORT / THEME
- Figure skating · Fiction
- CAST / FEATURED PEOPLE
- Margot Robbie · Sebastian Stan · Allison Janney
I, Tonya in the wider sports-film conversation
I, Tonya is worth viewing not only as a self-contained story but as part of a wider conversation about how sport is represented on screen. The film is useful for studying how sports biography can stage uncertainty about reputation rather than presenting a single authoritative version of events.
Continue through Figure skating, Craig Gillespie, 2017 and United States. For a closer reading, see I Tonya Performance And Judgment.
Synopsis
A fractured sports biography in which athletic performance, public narrative and competing testimony continually reshape one another.
Place in film history
The film is useful for studying how sports biography can stage uncertainty about reputation rather than presenting a single authoritative version of events.