The film will release theatrically in the U.K. McEnroe will be available Friday, September 2nd on all streaming and on demand platforms for Showtime subscribers, before making its on-air debut on Sunday, September 4th at 8 p.m. The one hour, 44-minute documentary debuted to a vocal, enthusiastic and positive response from a packed audience at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City on Friday, June 10th. The mercurial McEnroe faces his fears, demons, his dad and toughest opponent of all-his shadow self-in a fascinating new documentary from director/writer Barney Douglas.
Thirty-eight years after his painful Paris collapse, McEnroe is sitting on the stage of the SVA Theater on 23rd street in New York City revealing he’s still so haunted by that five-set loss to Lendl he suffered a sleepless night dwelling on it during his trip to Paris to cover Roland Garros for NBC weeks earlier. The scene sums up McEnroe’s presence in a revealing new documentary: he hurls himself into the stormy and celebratory moments of his life and career and shares lessons learned with the candor that comes from age and experience. Indeed, McEnroe squandered a two-set lead and saw his Roland Garros dream dissolve to Lendl in one of the most gut-wrenching losses of his life. Like a corpse springing from a chalk outline at a crime scene, McEnroe observes his own demise between the lines bluntly. Rising to his feet, McEnroe gazes back at the spot where he crashed on clay and realizes an out almost out of body experience seeing himself still down. The blurring ball eludes a sprawling McEnroe leaving the left-hander tasting dirt, wearing an empty expression and a swath of salmon-colored clay streaking his white clothes. In one of the most striking tennis scenes-and there are many-in the new Showtime sports documentary McEnroe, John McEnroe goes airborne lunging for a ballistic Ivan Lendl passing shot during the 1984 Roland Garros final.
The shadow casts instructive light across the fallen star. John McEnroe opens up on the magic and madness of his life and career in the new Showtime sports documentary McEnroe.
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