I, Tonya

In the lead up to the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway two young American figure skaters Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan were competing for places in the USA team and for the affections of the public and fans who for the most part heavily favoured Kerrigan. Famously, Kerrigan was the victim of a vicious assault that threatened her participation at the Games and the incident became a world wide fascination when it emerged that the perpetrators were linked to the Harding camp.

'I, Tonya' recreates the events leading up to and following 'the incident'. The film relates the disturbing life of dysfunction and violence that Harding (Margot Robbie) suffered from childhood to adulthood from her mother (Allison Janney) and her boyfriend/husband.

Robbie and Janney are both excellent and well deserving Academy Award nominees for their performances.

A sometimes shocking, dark humoured drama. Stay for the end credits which include complementary actual documentary footage.

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