Wimbledon

For some strange and unknown reason, I really like sports movies....but the ones that are all cute and aggressive at the same time.  This is interesting because I am horrid at sports.  I have no hand-eye coordination and I don't much like watching sporting events (minus hockey and soccer), but I do love watching movies about them.

The latest sports movie I watched was 2004's Wimbledon, starring Paul Bettany and Kristen Dunst.  These two play the wonderful roles of professional tennis players who are competing at Wimbledon.  It is a really cute story with a wonderful love story tied into it as well.  Okay... so maybe it is all a love story with a little tennis thrown in, but that is beyond the point!

So other than the part that this movie is based around a sport that I will never be able to play, thus allowing me to enjoy watching it, I also love the characters in the movie.  They are:

• Lizzie Bradbury (Kristen Dunst)
• American Tennis Player
• Peter Colt (Paul Bettany)
• British Tennis Player
• Dieter Prohl (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau.... who plays Jaime Lannister in the Game of Thrones which is also a wonderful show to watch and book to read)
• Peter's close friend and a bit of a playboy
• Carl Colt (James McAvoy)
• Peter's brother who is just a hoot (I sounded like an old lady there, but I refuse to apologize)

Peter's parents are also quite interesting, giving Wimbledon another layer of hilariousness!  Add in some other rival tennis players and you have a very unique cast of odd ball, off the wall characters that I have fallen in love with.

So I urge you to go and watch Wimbledon and to check it out at IMDb!

Lots of Love

Alexandra

We all start off in life with a dream, don't we? For a tennis player, it's being in the final of a Grand Slam, Centre Court, a high lob... a smash. Game, set and match. You're a champion. You're number one. But for most tennis players, that's all it ever is: a dream. The reality is another story. 

-Wimbledon, 2004