Directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris

Cast Emma Stone, Steve Carell, Andrea Riseborough, Elisabeth Shue

Why we’re excited

Where to start? This comedy-drama comes from the directors of ‘Little Miss Sunshine’, it stars Emma Stone and Steve Carell, it’s based on a gob-smacking true story, it’s set in the 1970s and it’s got an LGBT+ theme too. Convinced that men were better at tennis than women, showman Bobby Riggs (Carell) challenged champ Billy Jean King (Stone) to a televised match. Meanwhile she was discovering her sexuality with a hairdresser (the always brilliant Andrea Riseborough).

How to see it

‘Battle of the Sexes’ screens at the LFF on Saturday October 7, Monday October 9 and Saturday October 14. It opens in the UK on November 24.