Talk about comebacks. After many years in the wilderness and being considered MIA professionally, Mickey Rourke, just like the washed-up character he plays, attempts a return to the big show in "The Wrestler." Not only does he pull it off, but Rourke creates a galvanizing, humorous, deeply moving portrait that instantly takes its place among the great, iconic screen performances.Diner is one of my favorite movies. Best Rourke line: when Rourke's (uncultured, ladies-man) character, Boogie, asks an upper class young lady with whom he has been flirting, her name.
"Jane Chisholm. As in the Chisholm Trail."
After she rides off on a horse, he turns to Kevin Bacon's character Fenwick.
"What fuckin' Chisholm Trail?"
I thought Sin City was his big comeback!? He was awesome in that if you recall.
ReplyDeleteyou know...I don't really remember much of that film. I must have been otherwise occupied.
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