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The Wrestler
The story revolves around a series of dramatic events that occur to an elderly wrestler where he has to work in a shop in addition to being a wrestler to meet his daily needs and tries to find his daughter, which is left small because of his preoccupation with wrestling and the establishment of a relationship with a dancing dancer in a pub but fails And decides to return to glory within the wrestling arena.
14 January 1964, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
1 October 1983, Alpine, New Jersey, USA
21 May 1965
25 November 1946, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
2 May 1985, Staten Island, New York, USA
26 March 1964, The Bronx, New York, USA
May 17, 2016
A quarter-century (and, one senses, a lot longer in Rourke Years) since he pulled the popcorn-bag trick on Carol Heathrow and then talked his way back into her good graces, we'll still forgive Mickey Rourke anything.
October 21, 2014
As the film points out, wrestling may be fixed, but it certainly ain't fake. This may be a film, but it certainly ain't fake either.
January 09, 2009
The movie presses too hard and too often, but the performances are strong enough to withstand the melodramatic impulses, and the themes of isolation and self-destructiveness are too sharply realized to be trivialized.
June 22, 2013
The movie is populated with real wrestlers, and it makes sure to nail all the little details.
March 21, 2017
Great performances, great story.
February 20, 2014
Darren Aronofsky's filmmaking in The Wrestler is the most subtle and nuanced he's ever done.
January 16, 2009
Predictable as it is, this sad, strong beast of a film keeps us pinned to the mat with the strength of its compassion and the overpowering force of its central performance.
October 07, 2015
The most interesting aspect of the film is its depiction of the irreconcilable difference between someone's public and private personae.
January 09, 2009
The Wrestler has the intimacy of a fly-on-the-wall documentary. No stunt men were harmed -- or used -- in the fight sequences. But the drama makes for vibrant art.
January 16, 2009
Aronofsky directs with unfussy candour, alternating between the intensity of the wrestling and the drabness of Randy's 'real' life.
January 16, 2009
It's a wonderful, career-reviving performance, and you can't imagine the movie without him. Welcome back, Mickey.
January 14, 2009
The chance to play that poignant confusion is the real prize that Rourke and Tomei earn in The Wrestler.