We Need To Talk About Challengers

Challengers is the newest film from Luca Guadagnino and stars the likes of Zendaya, Josh O'Connor and Mike Faist. This film is absolutely fantastic. Filled with amazing tension, writing and performances. This one will be talked about for the rest of the year. Check out my full thoughts in my instant reaction and movie review in today's video!
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Challengers is a 2024 American romantic sports drama film directed by Luca Guadagnino from a screenplay by Justin Kuritzkes. It follows a professional tennis champion (Mike Faist) who plots a comeback with the help of his wife (Zendaya), a former tennis prodigy who retired after an injury, as he goes up against another player (Josh O'Connor), who also happens to be his former best friend and wife's former lover.
Delayed from an initial September 2023 release date by virtue of the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike, Challengers premiered in Sydney, on March 26, 2024, and was released theatrically in the United States by Amazon MGM Studios on April 26, 2024. The film received critical acclaim and has grossed $34 million worldwide.
In 2006, high schoolers and childhood best friends Patrick Zweig and Art Donaldson win the boys' junior doubles title at the US Open. Afterwards they meet Tashi Duncan, a highly lauded young tennis prospect to whom Patrick and Art are both attracted. The three meet in a hotel room, and in the ensuing encounter the two boys kiss both Tashi and each other, but Tashi ends the tryst before it escalates to sex. With Patrick and Art playing each other in the junior singles final the next day, Tashi says she will give her phone number to whichever wins. Patrick wins the match, and later signals to Art that he had sex with Tashi by placing the ball in the neck of his racket prior to serving - a tic of Art's.
Tashi and Art go on to play college tennis at Stanford University, while Patrick turns professional and begins a long-distance relationship with Tashi while on tour. Art privately suggests to Tashi that Patrick doesn't actually love her. When he visits Stanford, Patrick sees that Art is jealous, and playfully reassures him he cares for her. Patrick and Tashi fight when she gives him unsolicited tennis advice during sex and he says he views her as a peer, not his coach. In the match immediately after, which Patrick skips due to the fight, Tashi suffers a severe knee injury. Patrick returns to comfort Tashi, but she furiously demands he leave, with Art taking her side. Art aids Tashi in her recovery, but she is unsuccessful in resuming her tennis career.
Zendaya as Tashi Duncan
Josh O'Connor as Patrick Zweig
Mike Faist as Art Donaldson
Darnell Appling as New Rochelle Final Umpire
AJ Lister as Lily Donaldson
Nada Despotovich as Tashi's mother
Naheem Garcia as Tashi's father
Hailey Gates as Helen
Jake Jensen as Finn Larsen
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