Cast Mickey Rourke
Marisa Tomei
Evan Rachel Wood
Mark Margolis
Todd Barry
Screenwriter
Robert Siegel
Director
Darren Aronofsky
Running Time
109 minutes
Back in the late ‘80s, Randy “The Ram” Robinson 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 community centers around New Jersey. (Fox Searchlight)
More a fictional documentary than a drama really. It has two strong and brave performances from Rourke and Tomei. The amount of preparation and guts it took to play those roles is very impressive. Tomei's character is perhaps cliched, after twenty odd years of working in a strip club I think you'd be pretty much emotionally bullet proof.
