{"id":5667,"date":"2024-07-06T15:37:53","date_gmt":"2024-07-06T13:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/?p=5667"},"modified":"2025-01-23T15:04:42","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T14:04:42","slug":"challengers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/challengers\/","title":{"rendered":"Challengers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Golden Globe 2025 nominee!<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-video\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"CHALLENGERS | Final Trailer\" width=\"1165\" height=\"655\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-2N3hmRmwHQ?wmode=transparent&#038;fs=1\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/gg-winner.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"143\" height=\"100\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6010\" \/>From visionary filmmaker Luca Guadagnino, <em>Challengers <\/em>stars <strong>Zendaya <\/strong>as <strong>Tashi Duncan<\/strong>, a former tennis prodigy turned coach and a force of nature who makes no apologies for her game on and off the court. <\/p>\n<p>Married to a champion on a losing streak (Mike Faist &#8211; <em>West Side Story<\/em>), Tashi&#8217;s strategy for her husband&#8217;s redemption takes a surprising turn when he must face off against the washed-up Patrick (Josh O&#8217;Connor &#8211; <em>The Crown<\/em>) &#8212; his former best friend and Tashi&#8217;s former boyfriend. <\/p>\n<p>As their pasts and presents collide, and tensions run high, Tashi must ask herself, what will it cost to win.<\/p>\n<p>Tennis is just a metaphor for sex, with each serve, volley, and grunt representing the push-pull of the movie\u2019s central threesome. Love is a losing proposition in tennis, but in <em>Challengers<\/em>, it\u2019s everything.<\/p>\n<h6>Comedy, Drama, Romance<br \/>\nUnited States, Italy (English, Romanian)<br \/>\n2h 11min<br \/>\n<\/h6>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/challengers2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"307\" height=\"463\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5668\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Golden Globe 2025 nominee! From visionary filmmaker Luca Guadagnino, Challengers stars Zendaya as Tashi Duncan, a former tennis prodigy turned coach and a force of nature who makes no apologies for her game on and off the court. Married to a champion on a losing streak (Mike Faist &#8211; West Side Story), Tashi&#8217;s strategy for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5668,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","no-post-title","no-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/challengers2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5667"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6051,"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5667\/revisions\/6051"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}