A Letter from the Toronto Film Festival
"The 80s was the best ever…" enthuses Marisa Tomei in Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler . Mickey Rourke agrees: "Yeah. I hated the 90s." Sure he did. For a while there in the 80s Mickey was the coolest actor on the planet, a fashion plate Brando for the era of The Face . And in the 90s he was, what? Washed up. Well, Rourke’s drift is over. In one of the sweetest comebacks in recent memory he digs into the role of his life in The Wrestler , playing, what else? A has-been...
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