Love. Pain. Glory.

Starring: Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tomei, Evan Rachel Wood, Mark Margolis, Todd Barry, Wass Stevens, Judah Friedlander

DML Rating: ★★★★★★★★☆☆ - great

"I'm the one who was supposed to make everything okay for everybody. It just didn't work out like that. And I left. I left you. You never did anything wrong." - Randy "The Ram" Robinson

Why watch this? Rourke really gives the performance of his career. Give it a chance.

Plot Summary: An aging professional wrestler, Randy "The Ram" Robinson, faces the decline of his career and mounting health problems. He struggles to maintain his connection to the wrestling world while simultaneously attempting to mend his broken relationship with his estranged daughter and build a new one with a compassionate stripper.

Dad's Preview: This film has grown on me with each viewing. It is Mickey Rourke's film start to finish and he excels. He portrays a professional wrestler nearing the end of his career. His life carries tons of baggage: a broken, highly-medicated body; an estranged daughter; and no semblance of normalcy. You can't help but feel pity for this man. Yet, he's still trying... trying to reach out and be a good friend to people... Trying to reconnect with his daughter. It's all he can do, and a joy to watch him do it.  

Wild Bunch, Protozoa Pictures; Fox Searchlight Pictures