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The Wrestler

film by Aronofsky [2008]

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In Darren Aronofsky: The Fountain, The Wrestler, and Black Swan
…more warmly received was Aronofsky’s The Wrestler (2008), a moving story of an aging professional wrestler (Mickey Rourke) who attempts to maintain his fading career while building a relationship with a stripper (Marisa Tomei) and to reunite with his estranged daughter (Evan Rachel Wood). The film briefly resurrected Rourke’s career,…
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role of Tomei

In Marisa Tomei
…a stripper in Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler (2008). Her later films included The Lincoln Lawyer (2011), Crazy, Stupid, Love. (2011), and The Big Short (2015). Tomei had a recurring part in 2015 in the TV series Empire, and she played Peter Parker’s guardian, Aunt May, in such box-office hits as…
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