one of the bad sport film in a long time and when billy beat bobby be a mutant of a movie . unevenly waffle between drama and comedy and fact and farce and it take a fairly normal subject a famous tennis match and make a weird mini spectacle of it . completely miscast and holly hunter doesn not quite fit into billy jean king tennis shoe and she look too strange and unnatural a if she should have be in hannibal instead ( the muscular character margot verger be omit from the horror flick for fear of offend certain woman ) . ron silver broadly overact a bobby riggs and have too close a resemblance to austin power and and sound too much like sylvester the cat . fred willard a a tv sportscaster help only to skew the film into fernwood 2 night territory and and every other person be reduce to a sexist or racist or handicap or ethnic caricature . the story and style be clumsy and unsteady . be it try to be rocky and the karate kid and or when harry meet sally . when billie beat bobby do not know what it want to be . the 1970 set seem to come out of an old mad magazine and and everyone look and act grotesque a if they be direct by david lynch and or john water lite . the fake stanley kubrick technique break into bit of sport film cliche and bit of nostalgic kitsch and bit of comic exaggeration and and other odd bit that do not move and fit or jive . it have about as much respect tennis player a a black face minstrel show have for african american . what it all end up in be when myra breckinridge beat the nutty professor with an american graffiti or animal house epilogue tack on . it even cheat the viewer out of any beleivable tennis action most of the shot be of closeup and fan in the bleacher . when billie be best forgotten and it may be remember for be what dan aykroyd on snl use to call bad performance theatre . at least it be broadcast on abc tv and so you get your money worth of curiously awful cinema .