KINGS OF VENICE

Why we picked it

Spend a day on the boardwalk with KINGS OF VENICE, a madcap look at the paddle tennis community of Venice Beach.Once a proud sport, it's now kept alive by a collection of oddballs – including an Italian male model, a degenerate gambler, and Hollywood's most accomplished party crasher. That is, until pickleball shows up and threatens to overtake their beloved courts, leading the locals to hatch an over-the-top plan: a $50,000 winner-take-all tournament to put paddle tennis back on the map. Against all odds, they raise the cash. But when two of pickleball’s top pros show up to claim the prize for themselves, can our rag-tag crew pull off a miracle, or is paddle tennis dead for good?