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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 ...
- $44.7 million
- Clint Mansell
- $6 million
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.
The Wrestler: Directed by Darren Aronofsky. With Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tomei, Evan Rachel Wood, Mark Margolis. A faded professional wrestler must retire, but finds his quest for a new life outside the ring a dispiriting struggle.
- Darren Aronofsky
- 3 min
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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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 ...
Jan 2, 2009 · Written by Robert Siegel, formerly an editor at the satirical newspaper The Onion, The Wrestler is essentially Rocky in Tights, a Cuisinart collection of hoary cliches that have been seen in films ...
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 ...
