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...anticipation sank with the opening credits: "Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tomei, Evan Rachel Wood." That list spelled out the plot: damaged veteran, middle-age girlfriend, young daughter. The Wrestler never rose above fight-movie bromides, never disspelled my gloom. The character stereotyping makes Sylvester Stallone's Rocky Balboa, by comparison, seem as swathed in moral twlight as Luchino Visconti's Rocco and His Brothers. The movie's serioso sentimentality is doubly strange since the script is by Robert Siegel, an ex-staffer of The Onion and co-writer of The Onion Movie. His old job was puncturing cliches; here he recycles...
...woman in his life - will Randy manage to connect with his estranged daughter (Wood), who hasn't forgiven him for abandoning her? (That's Act Two, where the only innovation is that the girl's mother is never mentioned). And will a local stripper, well played by Tomei, respond to his plaintive love and drive down to see what may be Randy's last fight? (Can't have a fight movie without a "Yo, Adrian!" moment...
...Andy is a drug addict. His wife (Marisa Tomei) is cuckolding him with his own brother (Ethan Hawke). He is in trouble at work - well-founded suspicions of embezzlement - and he is also the masterless mind behind a plan to rob a suburban jewelry store - which just happens to be owned by his very own parents (Albert Finney and Rosemary Harris). Needless to say, this not exactly capering caper goes murderously awry. We quickly understand that nothing good is going to come out of this mess for Andy. He, of course, does not catch the drift toward disaster. Coolly smiling...
Alfie’s first trouble is the simplest: he gets caught cheating on his one steady lover (Marisa Tomei). In his normally verbose narrative, Alfie gives no justification for his actions, because it seems obvious to him: one woman is never going to be enough to satisfy his prodigious sexual appetite...
...story of street kids that earned her an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign-Language Film. In 1991 came Mississippi Masala, a critically acclaimed interracial love story starring Denzel Washington. But that was followed in 1995 by The Perez Family. Despite a cast of Anjelica Huston, Alfred Molina and Marisa Tomei, critics panned the film, with The New Yorker deriding it as "almost unwatchable." Her next movie Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love was universally skewered, and even Nair disowned it as an "aberration." In 1997 she moved to South Africa with her second husband, Mahmood Mamdani?now an anthropology professor...