Sue Bird: In the Clutch

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Sue Bird: In the Clutch

2024

1h 38m

Documentary

LGBTQ+

Biography

Sports

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In her 21-year professional career, WNBA basketball legend Sue Bird has won five Olympic gold medals, becoming the most successful point guard to ever play the game. Alongside her fiancee, U.S. soccer star Megan Rapinoe, Sue confronts her next challenge -- retiring from the only life she's ever known.

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Monica Castillo

RogerEbert.com

It’s an emotional journey as well as a career retrospective, celebratory in spirit and a tribute to one of the most award-winning players in the league’s history.

Jan 26, 2024

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Matthew Creith

TheWrap

Who Sue is matters, not only because she’s an engaging athlete to focus on, but because her story is unlike that of many sports documentaries. Sue isn’t necessarily an underdog, a theme that has defined most movies concentrating on sports figures.

Jan 22, 2024

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Marya E. Gates

indieWire

Like so many biopic docs of late [this is] nothing more than a slickly edited, hermetically sealed, pre-packed, and pre-approved highlights reel.

Rated: C

Jan 22, 2024

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Louisa Moore

Screen Zealots

As with most biopic documentaries, the film is a positive-leaning celebration of its subject’s storied career. What makes this one different is that Dowland asks the questions you really want to hear, and Bird answers them with honesty.

Mar 20, 2024

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Steven Prokopy

Third Coast Review

Admittedly, I don’t get emotional about sports in general, but Bird’s life encompasses a great deal more than just basketball; her influence goes so far beyond that, and In the Clutch makes that strikingly clear.

Rated: 3/4

Feb 9, 2024

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Cory Woodroof

For the Win (USA Today)

It’s got the same patterns and flow of a good ESPN 30 for 30, and Bird’s journey really is big enough for a project of this magnitude. Not every athlete deserves an entire movie’s worth of document, but Bird’s more than worthy.

Feb 2, 2024

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Tania V

What a great story, watching her play on the court so serious for years, she really surprised me with her personality and humor. Well done! 👏

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

03/28/24

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Synopsis

In her 21-year professional career, WNBA basketball legend Sue Bird has won five Olympic gold medals, becoming the most successful point guard to ever play the game. Alongside her fiancee, U.S. soccer star Megan Rapinoe, Sue confronts her next challenge -- retiring from the only life she's ever known.

Director: Sarah Dowland
Producer: Sarah Dowland, Emily Singer Chapman, Svetlana Zill
Distributor: Wolfe Releasing
Production Co: Black Bar Mitzvah, Waffle Iron Entertainment, Jigsaw Productions
Genre: Documentary, LGBTQ+, Biography, Sports
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 29, 2024
Runtime: 1h 38m

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