The Wrestler

2008 R 1h 49m 7.9

A faded professional wrestler must retire, but finds his quest for a new life outside the ring a dispiriting struggle.

This is a drama about an aging professional wrestler, decades past his prime, who now barely gets by working small wrestling shows in VFW halls and as a part-time grocery store employee. As he faces health problems that may end his wrestling career for good he attempts to come to terms with his life outside the ring: by working full time at the grocery store, trying to reconcile with the daughter he abandoned in childhood and forming a closer bond with a stripper he has romantic feelings for. He struggles with his new life and an offer of a high-profile rematch with his 1980s arch-nemesis, The Ayatollah, which may be his ticket back to stardom.

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Info about The Wrestler

Studio(s): Wild Bunch, Top Rope

Originally Released: United States on Oct 12, 2008

Box Office Gross: $20,258,819.00

Budget: $6,000,000.00

Genres: Drama, Sport