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A washed-up wrestler struggles to find something worth living for, whether it's a stripper, his estranged daughter or the sport in which he's barely healthy enough to compete anymore. With Oscar-worthy work from Mickey Rourke and Marisa Tomei, the film is full of small details and big truths about choices, mistakes and resilience. The set-up is cliché. The execution is anything but.
