The Wrestler
An elderly wrestler can hardly even get small offers for wrestling and work as a part-time grocery store manager and face health problems that may end his career in wrestling. In the midst of this, some dramatic situations occur. He tries to get close to his abandoned daughter as a child and he works hard to start a new life.
15 November 1976, West Chester, Pennsylvania, USA
17 March 1977, Williams Air Force Base, Arizona, USA
16 March 1969, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA
13 July 1973, Morgantown, West Virginia, USA
15 April 1978, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
March 21, 2017
Great performances, great story.
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 16, 2009
Aronofsky directs with unfussy candour, alternating between the intensity of the wrestling and the drabness of Randy's 'real' life.
February 20, 2014
Darren Aronofsky's filmmaking in The Wrestler is the most subtle and nuanced he's ever done.
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.
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.
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 14, 2009
The chance to play that poignant confusion is the real prize that Rourke and Tomei earn in The Wrestler.
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.
June 22, 2013
The movie is populated with real wrestlers, and it makes sure to nail all the little details.
January 16, 2009
It's a wonderful, career-reviving performance, and you can't imagine the movie without him. Welcome back, Mickey.
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.
