"Renée" tells the story of Renée Richards' battle to enter the 1977 U.S. Open as the first transgender tennis player. Simultaneously, it follows her today as she struggles to cope with a life of contradictions and personal conflict. Through interviews with tennis legends, family, friends and experts from the transgender field, a story of perseverance, breakthrough and hardship unfolds.
Renée
Growing up the ultimate alpha-male, Dick Raskind always felt different from other guys. Still, it wasn't until his 40s, after getting married and having a son, that Dick was reborn as Renée Richards. A dynamite tennis player, Renée took the sports world by storm when she attempted to enter the 1977 U.S. Open as a woman. Directed by Eric Drath, this fascinating film chronicles the surprising and affecting human story behind one of America’s first transgender people in the public eye.
