In fact, there really is something quite inspiring about the casting of Rourke. As a washed-up old actor battling his demons with myriad personal issues, playing a washed-up old wrestler battling his ...

A steely-eyed lead in the '80s and early '90s, Mickey Rourke stood out first as a good actor in bad films (bedding Kim Basinger in the soft-core psychobabble 9 1/2 Weeks), then as a bad actor in worse ...

In Bangladesh, the sport of boli khela — or the wrestler game — is a meticulous, methodical affair, a tone Iqbal H. Chowdhury re-creates for his debut feature, “The Wrestler.” Straddling a line ...