Twenty years ago, Randy 'The Ram' Robinson was a successful wrestler; now he is decadent, living alone in a trailer, working part time in a supermarket and wrestling in the weekends. After a wrestling match, Randy has a heart attack in the dressing room and has heart by-pass surgery; his doctor forbids him to use steroids or wrestle again. Randy decides to retire and proposes that the stripper and lap dancer Pam "Cassidy" move in with him. However she does not accept and suggests that he approach his daughter Stephanie to resolve their differences. Randy gets a full-time job in the supermarke... t, but he does not deal well with the world outside the arena and decides to return to the sport where he is recognized by his fans.
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Wrestler, The An ageing wrestler struggles to leave the spotlight in Darren Aronofsky's award-winning drama. Mickey Rourke revels in the role of a lifetime
First things first, let's deal with the misleading publicity about The Wrestler being Mickey Rourke's first film for 15 years. Anyone with even a passing interest in film will know that the man with the interesting face has been pretty busy in recent times, fronting Sin City in 2005 and providing excellent support in Once Upon A Time In Mexico (2003) and Animal Factory (2000).
What is fair to say is that even roles as strong as these are beneath a man who burst on the scene like a modern-day Brando. With his fi...
In The Wrestler (* * * out of four), Mickey Rourke wallops us with a damaged hero who is full of pathos and poignant contradictions.
A superstar in the '80s, Rourke's Randy "The Ram" Robinson tries gamely to maintain his heavy metal/Viking image. But he's pushing 50. With his blond extensions and tanning-salon-enhanced visage, the washed-up fighter struts and preens and amps up the staged, bloody choreography before tiny audiences at his smattering of gigs.
More often, he sucks it up and goes to his day job at a grocery store, his bleached locks encased in a hairnet. Outside the ring, he's Robin (the given name he despises), spooning out pas...
Wrestler, The
After The Fountain, Darren Aronofsky has something to prove. Its a question of reliability: can Aronofsky...
First things first, let's deal with the misleading publicity about The Wrestler being Mickey Rourke's first film for 15 years. Anyone with even a passing interest in film will know that the man with the interesting face has been pretty busy in recent times, fronting Sin City in 2005 and providing excellent support in Once Upon A Time In Mexico (2003) and Animal Factory (2000).
What is fair to say is that even roles as strong as these are beneath a man who burst on the scene like a modern-day Brando. With his fine looks, shy manner and soft voice, it's perhaps more accurate to say Rourke initially resembled the young Al Pacino. And for a while, ...
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