The wrestler [videorecording] / Fox Searchlight Pictures presents ; in association with Wild Bunch ; a Protozoa Pictures production ; a film by Darren Aronofsky ; produced by Scott Franklin ; written by Robert Siegel ; directed and produced by Darren Aronofsky.
Format:
[videorecording] /
Publisher:
Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home EntertainmentInc.,
Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tomei, Evan Rachel Wood, Mark Margolis, Todd Barry, Wass Stevens, Judah Friedlander, Ernest Miller. Originally produced as an American motion picture in 2008. Special features: Within the ring [featurette] (43 min.); "The Wrestler" Music video-written and performed by Bruce Springsteen (4 min.).
Contents:
Main titles -- Twenty years later -- Living on the edge -- Choreographing the match -- Weekend warriors -- Lovely Cassidy -- Keeping it going -- Staple gun -- It's your heart -- Welcome home -- Can we talk? -- Trying to connect -- Few autographs -- Feeling good -- Go with your gut -- Deli man -- Just hanging out -- Let's party -- Never again! -- Falling apart -- Back in the game -- This is where I belong -- Main event -- End titles.
Summary:
Back in the late '80s, Randy 'The Ram' Robinson was a headlining professional wrestler. Now, decades past his prime, he barely gets by working small wrestling shows in VFW halls and as a part-time grocery store employee. He faces health problems that may end his wrestling career and is attempting to come to terms with his life outside the ring. He wants to reconcile with the daughter he abandoned in childhood and begins a relationship with a stripper. He struggles with his new life and an offer of a high-profile rematch with his 1980s arch-nemesis, 'The Ayatollah,' which might just be his ticket back to stardom.
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