‘Great, Iconic’ Mickey Rourke Performance Piledrives His Way Back to Glory

While slappies like Viggo Mortensen hedge their Oscar ‘08 futures with something close to a film per month, we much prefer the bombast of all-or-nothing awards-season power hitters like Daniel Day-Lewis and Mickey Rourke. Yes, we wrote Mickey Rourke — he of the inflated face, reckless scooter piloting, and now of the acclaimed Darren Aronofsky film The Wrestler, a stirring Venice Film Festival success that Variety pumped as featuring “a galvanizing, humorous, deeply moving portrait that instantly takes its place among the great, iconic screen performances”:

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