I, Tonya is a 2017 American biographical film directed by Craig Gillespie and written by Steven Rogers. It follows the life of figure skater Tonya Harding and her connection to the 1994 attack on her rival Nancy Kerrigan. It features interviews with the characters in mockumentary-style set in the modern day, as well as fourth wall breaking. Margot Robbie (who also produced) stars as Harding, Sebastian Stan plays Harding's husband Jeff Gillooly, and Allison Janney plays Harding's mother; Julianne Nicholson, Caitlin Carver, and Bobby Cannavale also star.
I, Tonya had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 8, 2017, and was theatrically released in the United States on December 8, 2017. Upon release the film was a critical and commercial success with critics prasing Robbie and Janney's performance while the film grossed $40 million worldwide on an $11 million budget.
At the 90th Academy Awards, Janney won for Best Supporting Actress, while the film also earned nominations for Best Actress for Robbie and Best Editing. It earned three nominations at the 75th Golden Globe Awards, winning Best Supporting Actress for Janney,and at the 24th Screen Actors Guild Awards won Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Janney) and was nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role. At the 71st British Academy Film Awards, the film earned five nominations, winning Best Actress in a Supporting Rolefor Janney.
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SYNOPSIS:
From the proverbial wrong side of the tracks in Portland, Oregon, former competitive figure skater Tonya Harding was never fully accepted in the figure skating community for not inherently being the image of grace, breeding and privilege that the community wanted to portray, despite she being naturally gifted in the sport athletically. Despite ultimately garnering some success in figure skating being national champion, a world championship medalist, an Olympian, and being the first American woman to complete a Triple Axel in competition, she is arguably best known for her association to "the incident": the leg bashing on January 6, 1994 of her competitor, Nancy Kerrigan, who, unlike Tonya, was everything that the figure skating community wanted in their representatives. Her association to that incident led to Tonya being banned from competitive figure skating for life. Tonya's story from the beginning of her figure skating life at age four to the aftermath of the incident is presented. Besides Tonya herself, key people in her life give their perspective of their role in her life. Although they may agree on the broad issues at hand, such as that the incident did occur, they may vary widely in their recollection of the details. These people are: her waitress mother Lavona Golden, who despite having paid for her expensive figure skating lessons, was abusive toward her physically and emotionally, never believing she being good enough in any aspect of the word, and who pulled her from school to focus solely on the figure skating; Diane Rawlinson, her first and longest serving coach, who, for good or bad, largely let Tonya be Tonya in the way she presented herself to the figure skating world; Jeff Gillooly, her first husband, the two who also had a turbulent relationship on a need to be loved perhaps without truly loving the other; Jeff's friend and Tonya's bodyguard Shawn Eckardt, a dim bulb who believed himself to be a bigger player in the big scheme of life than he actually was; and sports journalist Martin Maddox, a fictional character who provides general commentary of what the sports media as a collective wanted out of Tonya and the incident.
CASTS:
- Margot Robbie as Tonya Harding
- Mckenna Grace as young Tonya Harding
- Maizie Smith as Tonya Harding (age 4)
- Sebastian Stan as Jeff Gillooly, Harding’s lover and friend, later husband
- Allison Janney as LaVona Golden, Harding’s mother
- Julianne Nicholson as Diane Rawlinson, Harding's skating coach and Bob's wife
- Caitlin Carver as Nancy Kerrigan, Harding's skating rival and Olympic teammate, and the victim of the 1994 attack
- Bojana Novakovic as Dody Teachman, another of Harding’s coaches
- Paul Walter Hauser as Shawn Eckhardt, a bodyguard and friend of Gillooly
- Bobby Cannavale as Martin Maddox, a television producer
- Dan Triandiflou as Bob Rawlinson, Diane’s husband
- Ricky Russert as Shane Stant, hired by Jeff and Shawn to attack Nancy
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