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Oscar Watch: The Wrestler
Oscar Watch: The Wrestler
As well as things are going for Slumdog Millionaire, which opened well and is heading into strong Oscar contention, Fox Searchlight has its work cut out on marketing its Toronto-fest pickup The Wrestler, which stars the one-and-only Mickey Rourke in a tour-de-force performance. A hit on the ...
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apple.com — Back in the late ’80s, Randy “The Ram” Robinson (Mickey Rourke) was a headlining professional wrestler. Now, twenty years later, he ekes out a living performing for handfuls of diehard wrestling fans in high school gyms and ... The Wrestler - Trailer A
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youtube.com — Back in the late 80s, Randy The Ram Robinson (Mickey Rourke) was a headlining professional wrestler. Now, twenty years later, he ekes out a living performing... The Wrestler Trailer (video)
Trailer Preview: The Wrestler
Trailer Preview: The Wrestler
weblogs.variety.com — Fox Searchlight will send out its first trailer for The Wrestler today. Their mission: to make filmgoers want to see a movie that looks very male--Mickey Rourke plays a down-on-his-luck, aging wrestler facing the end of his career who suddenly ... Trailer Preview: The Wrestler
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Movie Preview: The Wrestler
BuzzSugar — [image] I've been swatting away the buzzings of " Oscar watch " and " best film of the year " in regard to indie drama The Wrestler for a while now, just waiting until I could see a trailer and hopefully understand what all the fuss is about. The film stars Mickey Rourke (whose " astonishing performance " here has some calling him a " comeback kid ") as an aging professional wrestler with a ton of regrets. He starts to try and take control of his life, however, when he befriends an exotic dancer (Marisa Tomei) and attempts to make peace with his ...

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