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Weekend Movie Forecast: <em>The Wrestler, Seven Pounds, Yes Man</em>

Published Dec 19, 2008

Modified Dec 19, 2008

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Mickey Rourke makes his big comeback this weekend in The Wrestler. Directed by Darren Aronofsky (Requiem for a Dream), the movie stars Rourke as Randy Robinson, a ruined pro wrestler hobbling through the miserable end of his "career." Anthony Lane at the New Yorker admits that "for some years, Mickey Rourke was just about my favorite movie star. This was not an easy stance to take." But now, Lane says, he's back in a big way: "What Rourke offers us, in short, is not just a comeback performance but something much rarer: a rounded, raddled portrait of a good man. Suddenly, there it is againâthe charm, the anxious modesty, the never-distant hint of wrath, the teen-age smiles, and all the other virtues of a winner. No wonder people warmed to Randy Robinson twenty years ago. I felt the same about Mickey Rourke, and I still do." — Gothamist

John Del Signore

Published Dec 19, 2008

Modified Dec 19, 2008

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Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.

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