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		List Price: $39.99		Label: Fox Searchlight Salesrank: 3947 Released: April 21, 2009
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		MPAA Rating: R (Restricted) Media: Blu-ray

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Item Type: BLU-RAY DVD Movie
Item Rating: R
Street Date: 04/21/09
Wide Screen: yes
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Language: ENGLISH
Foreign Film: noSubtitles: no
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Packaging: Sleeve

Description of The Wrestler [Blu-ray]:
The mystery of Mickey Rourke's career comes to a grungy apotheosis in The Wrestler the much-battered actor's triumphant return to the top rope. He plays Randy "The Ram" Robinson, a heavily scarred and medicated battler who's twenty years past his best moment in the ring. But he still schleps to every second-rate fight card he can get to, stringing out the paychecks (more likely a fistful of cash) and nursing what's left of his pride. His attempts to adjust to a more normal kind of life form the most absorbing sections in the movie, whether it's flirting with a stripper (Marisa Tomei is in good form, in every sense), establishing a bond with his understandably angry daughter (Evan Rachel Wood), or working behind the deli counter at a nondescript megastore. Rourke is commanding in the role; he obviously spent hours in the gym and the tanning salon, and his ease with the semi-documentary style adopted by director Darren Aronofsky allows him to naturalistically interact with the colorful real-life wrestlers who crowd the movie's ultra-believable locations. All of which helps distract from the film's overall adherence to ancient formula. You might find yourself waiting for the scene where the risk-taking Aronofsky (Requiem for a Dream) pulls the switch and reveals his true motives for pursuing this otherwise sentimental story, but there's no switch. The Wrestler is an old-fashioned hoke machine, given grit by an actor who doesn't seem to be so much performing the role of ravaged survivor as embodying it. --Robert Horton

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The Wrestler [Blu-ray] Reviews:
ONe of the BEST comeback movies from a GREAT actor that's been missed
2009-12-04 - "The Wrestler"is one of the best movies I've seen in a long time.Mickey Rourke and Marisa Tomei are exceptional.The movies filmed like a reality show,with the camera following the actors.
The ending is great.We don't know whats going to happen to the main charater,but he's dong what he loves the most.I just don't understand why Bruce Springteen wasn't nomanated for an Oscar for song of the year.

A MUST SEE!!!
2009-12-04 - ONE OF THE BEST NEW MOVIES I'VE SEEN HIT THE SCREEN IN A LONG TIME! I STILL WATCH IT OVER AND OVER! ROURKE MAKES AN INCREDIBLE PERFORMANCE AND AS ALWAYS, MARISA TOMEI IS SMOKIN'!

Tragedy of solitude
2009-12-03 - An aging wrestler attempts following up doctor's advice to change a life-style unsuccessfully as self-indulgence made him closer to none in the world but does his craft the best to a very end.

Realistic and Can be appreciated by any Wrestling fan!
2009-12-02 - After reading through review after review of people talking about Mickey Rourke, I'm actually going to review the MOVIE these reviews are supposed to be about.

The Wrestler is probably one of the best long time awaited movies by wrestling fans that remember the guys from the glory days and what became of them to date. Just watching this movie reminded me so much of a documentry I watched long ago about Jake The Snake and his real life struggles with his daughter and his demons. The Wrestler brings a true since of realism to the silver screen and that's not something that happens to often. This movie is great for one thing, and that's "realism". An old wrestler who's glory days are behind him and has to work part time at a grocery store while still continue matches on the side to get by,a worn down stripper who can't seem to settle down and have a real emotional relationship with a man,and a daughter who has been abandoned by her father for a majority of her life, and can't seem to find peace within herself.

I mean these are real people, this is real life on film. At the beginning of the movie you see Randy The Ram as a Wrestler that can still keep himself on his feet, but as the movie goes on you really get to see just how thin thread that's holding him up truly is. To Randy The Ram, being a wrestler is his identity, it's what he has always known, and what has always motivated him to keep on moving. Even at the end of his career at the very bottom of it all, he still can't let go of it. Only towards the end of the movie do you get to realize why Randy does what he does. He Wrestles because the ring is that one place, where he truly feels at peace.

Not Hollywood
2009-12-02 - If you haven't seen "The Wrestler" yet go watch it on HBO or buy the DVD. This is by far the most honest drama ever made. The first thing you will notice is the camera work. It's mostly done in a hand-held style reminiscent of documentaries. The second thing you'll notice is how Rourke just immerses himself in the role. There are little touches and details that you won't see in the vast majority of films. Marisa Tomei (gorgeous as always) plays a stripper in her mid or late 40's. And there's a scene where she's crawling along the catwalk and you can see the stretchmarks on her body giving away her age. In 90% of Hollywood films, they would have edited them out. The scene where Rourke breaks down and says he's "just a broken down piece 'a meat", that is just one of the top tear-jerker scenes and somewhat reminiscent of Brando in "On the Waterfront".
Despite nobody acknowledging this, "The Wrestler" is based on the life of Jake "The Snake" Roberts. If you watched "Beyond the Mat" (1999) there are many parallels including the wrestlers troubled relationship with his daughter and inability to deal with his faded glory.
Why are you still reading this? Go buy it!