Weekend Movie Forecast: The Wrestler, Seven Pounds, Yes Man
<p>Mickey Rourke makes his big comeback this weekend in<em> The Wrestler.</em> Directed by Darren Aronofsky (<em>Requiem for a Dream</em>), the movie stars Rourke as Randy Robinson, a ruined pro wrestler hobbling through the miserable end of his "career." <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/cinema/2008/12/15/081215crci_cinema_lane">Anthony Lane at the New Yorker</a> 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: <strong>"What Rourke offers us, in short, is not just a comeback performance but something much rarer: a rounded, raddled portrait of a good man. </strong>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."</p>
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