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Documentary  •  2024  •  98 min

Sue Bird: In the Clutch (2024)

Sue Bird: In the Clutch poster

Sue Bird: In the Clutch (2024)

Rating & Dimensions

Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Progressive
Political: Leans Left
Diversity: High
LGBTQ: Positive
Family Values: Strongly Progressive
Viewer Rating
8.3

Overview

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

Starring Cast

Sue Bird  •   Megan Rapinoe  •   Diana Taurasi

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Detailed Bias Analysis

Analyzing...
Progressive

Primary

Political: Leans Left
Confidence: High

The film celebrates the career and cultural impact of Sue Bird, highlighting her achievements as a female athlete and her role in advancing LGBTQ+ representation. It champions themes of equality and athlete activism through her journey and public persona.

Diversity: High
Confidence: High

The film features a cast of real individuals whose identities inherently represent diversity. Its narrative explicitly centers on and celebrates the life and career of a prominent female and openly gay athlete, making diversity, equity, and inclusion themes central to its storytelling.

Secondary

LGBTQ: Positive
Confidence: High

Sue Bird: In the Clutch chronicles the life and illustrious career of Sue Bird, an openly gay athlete. The film respectfully portrays her identity and relationship with Megan Rapinoe as central to her story, highlighting her journey with dignity and complexity. It affirms the worth of LGBTQ+ lives and love within the context of her public and personal achievements.

Family Values: Strongly Progressive
Confidence: High

The documentary highlights the committed same-sex partnership of Sue Bird and Megan Rapinoe, celebrating their relationship as a family unit and thereby endorsing alternative family structures and fluid gender roles.

Trans: N/A
Confidence: High

The film chronicles the career and personal life of WNBA star Sue Bird. It does not feature any identifiable transsexual characters or explore themes related to transsexual identity. The narrative focuses exclusively on Bird's journey in professional basketball and her relationships.

Female Combat: N/R

The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.

Gender Swap: No
Confidence: High

The documentary focuses on real-life female athletes Sue Bird, Megan Rapinoe, and Diana Taurasi. All featured historical figures are portrayed on screen with their documented gender, indicating no instances of a gender swap.

Race Swap: No
Confidence: High

The film features real historical figures, including Sue Bird, Megan Rapinoe, and Diana Taurasi. These individuals are portrayed as their documented race, with no instances of a character established as one race being depicted as another.

Viewer Rating Breakdown

8.3

Viewer Rating

Combines user and critic ratings from four sources

User Ratings

IMDB logo
7.4
The Movie Database logo
9.0

Critic Ratings

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8.6
Metacritic logo
N/A

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