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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 ...
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Robert D. Siegel is an American screenwriter and film director. [1] He is most known for his work on The Wrestler and The Founder. [2] The Wrestler won the Golden Lion at the 2008 Venice Film Festival and earned several Best Picture nominations. Big Fan premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2009. It was revealed in an online interview that ...
Nov 26, 2008 · But Robert Siegel, a former editor in chief of The Onion, is not shooting for laughs with “The Wrestler,” for which he wrote the screenplay, and which opens in New York and Los Angeles on Dec. 17.
Jan 16, 2009 · Something about this gutsy, heartfelt drama from screenwriter Robert D Siegel and director Darren Aronofsky alchemises Rourke’s conceit into a terrifically engaging, likable and even vulnerable ...
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Dec 24, 2015 · Yet writer Robert Siegel, who is seeing his first produced credit with The Wrestler, sees plenty of similarities to Rocky. “We think of Rocky as this big blockbuster,” he says. “Saturday Night Fever is the same thing. We think of them as these blockbuster movies, but they were gritty little character studies.
Jan 18, 2009 · Scripted by Robert Siegel and directed by Darren Aronofsky, The Wrestler touches most bases of the genre. The hero Randy "the Ram" Robinson (Mickey Rourke) is a professional athlete far beyond his ...
Siegel is a graduate of the University of Michigan who later became senior editor of The Onion from 1996 to 1999, and editor-in-chief from 1999 to 2003. He is married to voice actress Jen Cohn and has a son with her. Robert D. Siegel is an American screenwriter and film director. He is most known for his work on The Wrestler and The Founder.
