The Wrestler

Synopsis: 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.
Genre: Drama, Sport
Director(s): Darren Aronofsky
Production: Fox Searchlight Pictures
  Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 57 wins & 86 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.9
Metacritic:
81
Rotten Tomatoes:
98%
R
Year:
2008
109 min
$26,136,413
Website
1,973 Views


...no introduction...

and a true American,

the people's hero...

Randy "The Ram"...

Robinson!

And the Ram is up immediately...

throwing haymakers and a pile driver!

Here tonight on August 1, 1984,

mark it down,

Randy "The Ram" Robinson-

...18,500 fans in the nation's capital.

- They want to see the Ram Jam!

- Well, I'm frustrated

And outdated

- Ram Jam! Ram Jam! Ram Jam!

- I really wanna be overrated

I'm a finder and I'm a keeper

I'm not a loser

I ain't no weeper

March 23, 1988,

and Randy "The Ram" Robinson...

set to do battle with the Ayatollah.

...slapping the Ram in his face.

He doesn't realize...

what this can do to motivate

Randy "The Ram" Robinson.

Pounding the vice.

And it could be time for Ram Jam.

Bang your head

- The horns are out!

- The horns are out!

Metal health will drive you mad

Bang your head

...of the Middle East,

the Ayatollah!

Metal health will drive you mad

The Ayatollah will not let go.

He is punishing the Ram.

My goodness. How much can this man take?

The Ram right where we have seen him

so many times before...

playing right to this sold-out

Madison Square Garden.

The horns are out. Here it comes.

Ram Jam! My goodness!

One, two, three!

It's over!

That's one for the ages.

April 6, 1989...

will forever go down

in professional wrestling history.

Oh.

Great show, Ram.

You really put them over.

Here you go.

Sorry. I was sure the gate'd be bigger.

But don't forget.

Two months. Rahway. Legend signing.

I need you, man.

Yo, Ram.

Think you could, uh,

sign this for me?

- Sure.

- Thanks a lot, man.

My first match ever was you

versus Davey Diamond at the Spectrum.

- Thanks a lot.

- Oh, yeah.

- 1985.

- That was a good one.

Yeah. You were awesome.

- Appreciate it, bro. There you go.

- Thanks. Thanks, Ram.

Nice guy, don't you think?

Over, baby

Take some time

Let me know

If you really want to go

Don't know what you got till it's

Oh.

Oh, sh*t.

Lenny.

Lenny.

Come on, Lenny.

Open up.

Goddamn it, Lenny.

F***.

F***.

Ram!

- Ram!

- Wake up! Ram!

- Ram!

- Come on! Ram! Wake up!

- Open up!

- Ram!

- Wake up!

- Wake up! Wake up!

- Ram!

- Wake up!

Who woke me up?

Choke slam!

- One more!

- Come on, Ram!

I'll see you maniacs in a little while.

- All right? I'll be back.

- Aw! Ram Jam! Ram Jam!

I'll be back.

- I ain't going anyplace.

- Ram Jam! Ram Jam! Ram Jam!

- Lenny.

- Yeah.

Lenny, why are you doing this to me?

- You'll get in when I get my money.

- Aw, come on, Lenny.

You know I'm always good for it.

Yeah, you're always good for it

every time this happens.

Come on, brother. My back went out.

Let me just at least get my ice packs.

- I cannot help you.

- Come on, man.

Oh, God.

Do you need extra protein

without the extra calories?

...to the front, please.

Rafael-

Hey, Rafael!

- Hey, Wayne, you got a second?

- Not really. Why?

Well, I was wondering

if you could throw me some more hours.

What's the matter?

Did they raise the price of tights?

Funny.

Let's see what we got.

Weekdays.

I'm busy on the weekends.

Whoa. Hey. Hey.

- You know the boys.

- What's up, Ram?

- Hey. What's up?

- Good to see you.

Hey, bro. Look at you.

You're all diesel, man. How you doing, brother?

- Good to see you, man.

- Okay. Right here, you can change.

- All right, man.

- I want my money.

There you go.

All right, guys. Listen up.

All right.

S.L.G., where are you?

- You're up first against T.D.S.

- Thank you.

Second, we got Havoc and Cobian

versus Billy the Kid and Lex Lethal.

- Yo, I got you tonight.

- Third, Sabian versus Devon Moore.

Fourth, Judas the Traitor versus Rob Eckos.

Intermission.

Fifth, Kevin Matthews versus Inferno.

Sixth, we got Sugga and DJ Hyde

versus the Funky Samoans.

Seventh, Paul E. Normous and Andy Anderson

versus Jim Powers and Papadon.

And last but not least,

for the strap...

we got Tommy Rotten versus Randy the Ram.

All right. You guys got it?

- Yep.

- Got it.

- All right. Let's do this. Have a good time.

- All right.

Hey, Ram.

Hey, there.

How you doing, man?

Hey. Tommy.

We're gonna be working tonight.

I know you, Tommy. I saw you out in, uh,

Pennsylvania a couple months ago.

- Allentown.

- You were really good. You really brought it.

- Thank you. Thank you.

- Keep working, man.

You know, people who drive the Cadillacs...

the ones with the politics,

they run the show.

- It ain't about ability, so you just hang in there.

- Yeah, I know, I know.

- All right.

- But, uh, as far as tonight...

I don't know what you wanna do.

I had a few ideas. I was thinking,

you know, maybe just for the heat...

- I would give you a low blow, follow it up with a bulldog.

- Just bring the cheap heat, bro.

- You guys should get the heat on us right away.

- All right.

Keep the heat on us, beat the sh*t out of us.

Boom, boom, boom, boom.

We'll come up, we'll get on the ropes.

- You guys bring us both in the hard way.

- Okay.

Then we get up, double dropkick,

we powder out again.

All right.

So we're gonna really milk it tonight.

- We're gonna milk it. Nice and slow, old-school, easy.

- Old-school.

Don't work his leg, man.

That's- Everybody does that.

- Work his neck. Work his neck.

- No, no. We working the neck.

- You're working the neck?

- I already got the leg.

- All right. You guys got the leg?

- Leg or neck. What you got?

- Maybe make your comeback right off there.

- Bang off the ropes...

then super kick and, uh, Ram Jam...

and we go have a beer, okay?

- That sounds great, man.

- You hang in there. You got a lot of ability.

- All right. All right.

- Okay?

- Right.

- Thank you.

Bless you.

...Randy "The Ram" Robinson!

Yo, Ram!

Yeah! Come on, Ram!

You're the man!

Ram Jam! Ram Jam!

Ram Jam!

Come on! Come on!

You all right, Ram?

Ram, you all right?

- I'm gonna rip his arm off!

- You want me to stop it?

- Check him, ref!

- You want me to stop it?

Are you sure?

Come on.

I'll give you something to boo about!

- Ram Jam! Ram Jam!

- Yeah!

Ram Jam! Ram Jam!

You still suck!

You still suck!

You still suck!

You still suck!

You still suck!

You still suck!

Come on! Get up!

Is that what you want to see?

Come here, you fat piece of crap!

Get out there with the rest of the party!

I'm coming out there, and I'll beat the hell

out of each and every one of you!

You know who you're dealing with?

I will destroy you people!

Shut the hell up!

That's it, old man!

Ram Jam! Ram Jam! Ram Jam!

Ram Jam! Ram Jam! Ram Jam!

Yeah.

Huh?

Ram Jam! Ram Jam!

Ram Jam! Ram Jam! Ram Jam!

Ram Jam! Ram Jam!

One, two, three!

Ladies and gentlemen,

here is your winner...

Randy "The Ram" Robinson!

Ram, you really popped that crowd.

- I'm just gonna glue this up, okay?

- Yep.

Yo, Ram, you got a sec?

Come on in.

You realize what's coming up?

- Huh?

- April 6.

Twentieth anniversary of you

and Ayatollah at the Garden.

- I know. Hey. Mm-hmm.

- Yeah.

- Long time ago.

- Time f***ing flies, right?

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Robert D. Siegel

Robert D. Siegel (born November 12, 1971) is an American screenwriter for The Onion Movie and The Wrestler, as well as the writer and director of Big Fan. more…

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