I, Tonya (2017)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2017
	Director: Craig Gillepsie
	Actors: Margot Robbie, Sebastian Stan, Allison Janney, Juliane Nicholson, Paul Walter Hauser, Caitlin Carver
	Country: USA
	Genre: Comedy, Drama
	Conditions of visioning: 05.02.2018, Schauburg, OV Sneak Preview, English with German subtitle
Synopsis: Tonya Harding (Robbie) was never fully accepted in the figure skating community for not being part of a certain elite. Her talent is based on her natural athletical body being one in a few able to jump a triple Axel. Her husband Jeff Gillooly (Stan) organised with his friend Shawn Eckhardt (Hauser) an attack on Tonya's competitor Nancy Kerrigan (Carver). "The incident", the leg bashing on January 6, 1994 of the pretty and loved Nancy brought Tonya under media focus and led to Tonya being banned from competitive figure skating for life by the North American skating association.
Review: How a promising career and life can be destroyed by the people around you? Already Tonya's mother LaVona (Janney) abused her. Then her husband Gillooly. Then the obviously-clever Shawn abused the situation. Indeed only her trainer Diane Rawlinson (Nicholson) was ever supportive. After watching the movie, I watched also a documentary about The Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan saga. One scene of the movie that impressed me as it was reality can be seen in real here, in particular at t=30s!  Nevertheless I did not get really interested in the story, possibly because I am neither ice skater nor North American. Margot Robbie, whose role I did not liked in Tarzan as stupid beauty but liked in Suicide squad as crazy and exciting character, shows in I, Tonya that she can play difficult roles. Complexity of emotions and actions. She confirms my impression in Suicide squad that she has talent. For Margot Robbie's acting and the strong and humorous melodrama, the movie deserves to be watched.
Rating: 6 /10