The Red-Band ‘I, Tonya’ Trailer is Here

‘America. They want someone to love. But they want someone to hate.’

The unbelievably true (?) story of figure skating champion Tonya Harding is on full display in the red-band trailer for I, Tonya. From Craig Gillespie (Lars and the Real Girl), this darkly comic adventure details Harding from her rough and redneck life as a young girl with a dream and a fiercely, staunchly profane momager (played by an acid-mouthed Allison Janney). Margot Robbie plays teen and adult Tonya and is nearly unrecognizable as the first American woman to complete a triple axel in competition. The tone and feel of the trailer are much like the movie itself, a mash-up of To Die For and Goodfellas. It’s a tone that won’t be for everyone but for me it sticks the landing.

I, Tonya recently received nominations from the IFP Gothams for Best Feature and Best Actress (Robbie), just the first phase of it skating through this awards season. The film also stars Sebastian Stan, Paul Walter Hauser, Julianne Nicholson, Bobby Cannavale and Mckenna Grace.

Neon will release I, Tonya on December 8th.

Here is the trailer.

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Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013.

He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.

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