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Wrestler (The)

Country: USA | France, Language: English, 109 mins

  • Director: Darren Aronofsky
  • Writer: Robert D. Siegel
  • Producer: Darren Aronofsky; Scott Franklin

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How the mighty fall...or, they just get older but keep on going...a movie mimicking life.

This is a hard, magnificent character study - perfectly cast, perfectly paced.

An emotional marathon of amends.

Hard, harsh reality and the human condition - shed a tear.

A triumph.


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The(ir) Blurb...

This is a drama about an aging professional wrestler, decades past his prime, who now barely gets by working small wrestling shows in VFW halls and as a part-time grocery store employee. As he faces health problems that may end his wrestling career for good he attempts to come to terms with his life outside the ring: by working full time at the grocery store, trying to reconcile with the daughter he abandoned in childhood and forming a closer bond with a stripper he has romantic feelings for. He struggles with his new life and an offer of a high-profile rematch with his 1980s arch-nemesis, The Ayatollah, which may be his ticket back to stardom.

Cast & Characters

Mickey Rourke as Randy;
Marisa Tomei as Cassidy;
Evan Rachel Wood as Stephanie;
Mark Margolis as Lenny;
Todd Barry as Wayne;
Wass Stevens as Nick Volpe;
Judah Friedlander as Scott Brumberg;
Ernest Miller as The Ayatollah;
Dylan Keith Summers as Necro Butcher;
Tommy Farra as Tommy Rotten;
Mike Miller as Lex Lethal;
Marcia Jean Kurtz as Admissions Desk Woman;
John D'Leo as Adam;
Ajay Naidu as Medic;
Gregg Bello as JAPW Promoter Larry Cohen