Bolstered by a career-best performance from Mickey Rourke and outstanding work by Marisa Tomei and Evan Rachel Wood. By Stephen Farber Indie film darling Darren Aronofsky stumbled with his most ...

All the same, for the first few minutes one could be excused for imagining the film was directed by Belgium ... relentlessly follows around aging wrestler Randy “the Ram” Robinson (Rourke ...

Aging wrestler Randy "The Ram" Robinson is long past his prime but still ready and rarin' to go on the pro-wrestling circuit. After a particularly brutal beating, however, Randy hangs up his ...

The 72-year-old had previously denied using the performance-enhancing drug to play wrestler Randy “The Ram” Robinson in the Oscar-nominated film. On Wednesday, the actor admitted to taking the ...

Actor Mickey Rourke teamed up with filmmaker Darren Aronofsky for the Oscar-nominated film The Wrestler. The movie marked a bit of a comeback for Rourke after years of controversy briefly stalled ...

The Wrestler opens with a montage of tacky posters ... believing that an actor is the character they're playing during the film's duration is probably the greatest compliment you can give to ...