Second Serve

The story

Fact-based story about tennis pro Renee Richards, whose player status was challenged in 1976 when it was revealed that she was a trans woman. Flashback to 1964 before she was out as trans, a successful New York doctor with a great lifestyle, a flashy girl friend, and a secret life. Her psychiatrist mother refuses to deal with her and sends her to a colleague who diagnoses with a psychotic gender confusion, which he says can be unlearned. After a failed marriage and parenthood, she comes out as trans, with a new life in California.

Cast & crew

Vanessa RedgraveRenee Richards

Martin BalsamDr. Beck

William RussJosh

Alice KrigeGwen

Louise FletcherDr. Sadie M. Bishop

Kerrie KeaneMeriam

Richard VentureDr. David Bradley

Reni SantoniDr. Roberto Granato

Jeff CoreyDr. Harry Benjamin

Alan FeinsteinBill

Nina van PallandtDanielle

Michael CavanaughGene Scott