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  1. The Wrestler is a 2008 American sports drama film directed by Darren Aronofsky and written by Robert Siegel. The film stars Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tomei, and Evan Rachel Wood. Rourke plays an aging professional wrestler who, despite his failing health and waning fame, continues to wrestle due to financial hardship and in an attempt to cling to ...

  2. Jul 15, 2023 · The Wrestler Plot Summary. There are a lot of fascinating attributes to Darren Aronofsky’s 2008 film, The Wrestler. For starters, Mickey Rourke’s tour de force Oscar-nominated performance as aging wrestler Randy “The Ram” Robinson; the tracking shots from slightly above the back of Randy’s head, so we see the world from his perspective.

  3. Jan 24, 2023 · Understated and yet powerful, The Wrestler is a unique take on the sports film. Chronicling the middle age of former professional wrestling superstar Randy "The Ram" Robinson, The Wrestler's rich themes use wrestling as a metaphor for life in general, which results in one of Mickey Rourke's best movie performances. Though the movie was ...

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  4. Dec 17, 2008 · Aging wrestler Randy "The Ram" Robinson (Mickey Rourke) is long past his prime but still ready and rarin' to go on the pro-wrestling circuit. After a particularly brutal beating, however, Randy ...

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  5. 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.

  6. Dec 17, 2018 · The ending: Randy "The Ram" Robinson—played in an Oscar-nominated performance by a Mickey Rourke constructed 100% from belt-leather and anabolic steroids—is a washed-up former pro-wrestling ...

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  8. "The Wrestler" is a beautiful movie, but it wouldn't be half as good if Mickey Rourke hadn't given the main character a face and a heart. There's virtually no other Hollywood actor that could have embodied Randy "The Ram" Robinson as perfectly as Rourke, and it's shocking to think how the movie could have turned out had someone else, say Bruce Willis or - as originally planned - Nicolas Cage ...

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