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| Category | Dramas DVDs, Action/Adventure Movies, Recommended Videos, Family Interaction, Live-Action, Black Comedy, Wrestlers, 1980s, Character Study, Art/Artists, Personal Triumph, Strippers, Professional Wrestling, Classic Fight Scenes, Road To Ruin | | Starring | Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tomei, Evan Rachel Wood, Ernest "The Cat" Miller | | Director | Darren Aronofsky | | Composer | Clint Mansell | | Director of Photography | Maryse Alberti | | Executive Producer | Jennifer Roth | | Producer | Scott Franklin | | Screenwriter | Darren Aronofsky, Robert Siegel |
Additional Footage; Soundtrack English; Soundtrack Spanish; English Subtitles; Dolby Digital 5.1 Re; Sensor Matic At first glance, Darren Aronofsky's THE WRESTLER may seem like a departure for the oftentimes frenetic filmmaker, and in some ways it is. When this story of a past-his-prime performer is compared to PI, REQUIEM FOR A DREAM, and THE FOUNTAIN, there is relatively little trace of psychoscientific addiction imagery, hip-hop editing, or grimly elegant peeks into dreams, nightmares, and otherworlds. Comic moments are plentiful. Aronofsky's signature close-ups of faces have been replaced with ones that force themselves into wounds inflicted for visceral spectacle. Much of the time the camera floats and bobs with an observant, almost documentary-like quietness, ethereally following the wrestler as if it were his past, and the viewer may perceive vague connections to a later, lonelier, less legitimate Rocky Balboa.
But Mickey Rourke isn't the Italian Stallion--he's Randy "The Ram" Robinson, a man who has spent decades slicing himself open in choreographed fights while adoring crowds roar. Pro wrestling isn't as lucrative as it was for Randy in the 1980s, but he stays at it while working menial jobs because performing isn't just the only thing he craves--it's the only thing that, at 50, he knows how to crave. While courting his one true friend, a stripper named Cassidy (Marisa Tomei), Randy does his best to restart a relationship with the angry daughter (Evan Rachel Wood) he abandoned. But Rourke imbues the image of Randy, ready to pounce from the ropes, looking almost as unreal as the box art on action figure packaging, with an expression of pain, desperation, and joy. It's a close-up that makes two things clear. For one, Randy's charisma is inseparable from the crippling fixation that's kept him alive. For another, THE WRESTLER might be at once a simpler and more complex meditation on addiction and eternal struggle than any of Aronofsky's earlier work. Wrestler Reviews: 5 stars out of 5 -- "Emotionally raw and with a climax that should draw tears, Mickey Rourke gives the performance of his career."-- Dan Jolin, Empire "THE WRESTLER is like ROCKY made by the Scorsese of MEAN STREETS. It's the rare movie fairy tale that's also a bravura work of art." -- Grade: A-- Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly 3 stars out of 4 -- "In THE WRESTLER, Mickey Rourke wallops us with a damaged hero who is full of pathos and poignant contradictions....Rourke gives the performance of his life."-- Claudia Puig, USA Today "Rourke brings just the right amount of faded charisma to Robinson....The actor is not playing himself but rather a part powerfully informed by his past life."-- Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times "[Mr. Aronofsky] makes a convincing show of brute realism. The supermarkets, trailer parks, V.F.W. halls and run-down amphitheaters of New Jersey are convincingly drab, and the grain of the celluloid carries a sour and salty aura of weariness and defeat."-- A. O. Scott, New York Times 4 stars out of 4 -- "Mickey Rourke plays the battered, broke, lonely hero, Randy ('The Ram') Robinson. This is the performance of his lifetime....This is Rourke doing astonishing physical acting."-- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times Included in Entertainment Weekly's 2008 Films Of The Year -- "In this great, tender, brutal, lyrical, and haunting tale of a washed-up professional wrestler still living off the fumes of his '80s glory days, Darren Aronofsky shows you Randy 'The Ram' Robinson from the inside out..."-- Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly 5 stars out of 5 -- "[B]eautiful, bittersweet and, at times, surprisingly funny....For Rourke, at least, the wrestler is the role of a lifetime, and he's better than he's ever been."-- Tom Charity, Total Film "Imagining someone other than the beatifically battered Mickey Rourke in the role of THE WRESTLER would be like picturing someone other than John Malkovich in BEING JOHN MALKOVICH."-- John Anderson, Washington Post "Elements that might have otherwise seemed cliché...are poignantly authentic in the hands of Rourke and director Darren Aronofsky..."-- A.V. Club, A.V. Club 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "Director Darren Aronofsky's new film THE WRESTLER is a quiet, intimate portrait of a troubled soul -- someone at odds with himself and with life in general whose every ounce of pain and virtue is measured onscreen."-- Marco Cerritos, Box Office 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "Rourke doesn't make a false move in this movie....You watch THE WRESTLER in a state of pure exhilaration. A great actor in a great movie will do that to you."-- Peter Travers, Rolling Stone Wrestler | List Price | $29.98 (You save $6.59) | | Studio | 20th Century Fox | | Orig Year | 2008 | | DVD Encoding | Region 1 | | All Time Sales Rank |  8388  | | CD Universe Part number | 7757170 | | Catalog number | 2257499 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Apr 21, 2009 | | Rating | R (MPAA) | | Rating Reason | for violence, sexuality/nudity, language and some drug use | | Running Time | 109 Minutes | | Additional Info | Widescreen; Dubbed; Subtitled | | Movie Details | Color; Widescreen; Dubbed; Subtitled; Checkpoint; Sensormatic |
Wrestler Video | Wrestler (2008) Widescreen; Dubbed; Subtitled; With Digital Copy |  | $32.09 |
Wrestler Movie Review Average Rating: (4.6 out of 5 stars)   List All Reviews A classic
It's only been out since December of last year and I can already tell you this. Mickey Rourke gives one of the best acting performances I've seen in a long time. Darren Aronofsky is going to be huge one day.
Submitted by frankcastle09 (Winder, GA)
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 A downer,but original and extremely well acted
The wrestler is a film about a has been wrestler (Mickey Rourke) who has a failed relationship with his daughter and is dying of heart problems. When he is told he can"t wrestle anymore,he tries to reconnect with his daughter and tries to improve his life. Rourke delivers a stunning,film anchoring performance that would have cinched the best actor oscar any other year if it had not been for sean penn,who won his second oscar for his fearless work in Milk. Marisa Tomei is superb as Cassidy,a stripper who befriends Rourke and understands him in a way the rest of the world can't. However,the ending is incredibly downbeat and it made me feel awful about people who make too many mistakes in they're lives. But I reccomend this movie if you want to see amazing acting and don't mind really brutal wrestling scenes!
Submitted by joe (manhattan,ny,usa)
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The Greatest film of the year
The Wrestler is without a doubt the film of 2008. It is an amazing piece of cinema and it carries great significance and importance. Mickey Rouke delivers one of the greatest performances of his carrier with his unbelievable portrayal of a retired wrestler trying to make it back into the business while juggling his own troubled and confusing life. He also tries to gain his daughters love again but ultimately fails. The Wrestler combines gritty and realistic fight scenes and performances with sharp and surprisingly humorous dialogue. It is also a very emotional film and encounters a broken down man on the verge of a heart attack who believes he has one more wrestling match left in him. Overall The Wrestler is a sublime film with magnificent camerawork and range. I highly advice this film for anybody who appreciates the sheer art of cinema and film-making. Ignore the Dark Knight and Slumdog Millionaire. This is the FILM OF 2008.
Submitted by Joey 34 (L.A Callifornia)
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The role of Randy "The Ram" was custom made for Mickey Rourke. I'm glad Nic Cage backed down because there's no way he could've pulled it off like Mickey Rourke did. One of my personal favorite movies. And if you ask me, Rourke got robbed of the Oscar. Do yourself a favor and check out this movie. You will thank me later.
Submitted by Todd (Acton, ON)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No Rourke mirroring Hogan, and Tomei with pierced nipples...
This was a well acted movie, especially by Rourke. The wrestling scenes did not overshadow the underlying stories. Some wrestling greats made cameos, and the grocery store scenes were ultra-realistic. This deserved to be more widely recognized by Hollywood, but instead, politically motivated movies like Milk and Slumdog get the push because wrestling is portrayed as racist and redneck. (Even though the owner of the largest wrestling company is from Greenwich, CT) This movie didn't deserve to get shi* on as much as it has. By the way, not that I mind it, but why is Marisa Tomei suddenly doing nude scenes like this after almost 25 years of acting? Is this the Meg Ryan "In The Cut" syndrome?
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Wrestler DVD Region 1
NTSC
Keep Case
Anamorphic Widescreen - 2.35
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
Dolby Digital Surround - Spanish
Subtitles - English, Spanish
Additional Release Material:
Trailers: Forced Trailers: WOLVERINE Theatrical Trailer, NOTORIOUS, 24 Season 7, TAKEN, THE BETRAYED
Music Video: The Wrestler - Bruce Springsteen
Featurette: Within the Ring - A No Holds Barred One On One with Real Wrestlers and Filmmakers
Mickey Rourke gives the performance of a lifetime as pro wrestler Randy "The Ram" Robinson, a former superstar now paying the price for twenty years of grueling punishment in and out of the ring. But he's about to risk everything to prove he has one more match left in him: a re-staging of his famous Madison Square Garden bout against "The Ayatollah." Darren Aronofsky directs a powerful cast in this action-packed saga of guts, glory and gritty determination that is "as irresistible as a headlock" (New York Post ).
Source: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
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