Hi,

I just saw “The Wrestler” and thought it was great.  

Mickey Rourke plays “Randy the Ram”, an aging pro wrestler, totally broke and twenty years older than his heyday… still playing to small crowds of nostalgic wrestling fans.  He works part-time in a supermarket to help make ends meet.  He lives in a trailer (when he can pay his rent and isn’t forced to sleep in his beatup van) and his only daughter wants nothing to do with him, having been let down too many times before.

Marisa Tomei plays “Cassidy”, an aging stripper who is becoming rapidly outshone by the younger models and she is slowly coming to grips with her plight.  Mickey tries to begin a non-customer relationship with Cassidy and is rebuffed, but he keeps trying.

Then The Ram has a major health issue that threatens what small bit is left of his wrestling career….  The wrestling footage is realistic and awesome, and Marisa isn’t so bad either as the stripper love interest!

Here are a few takeaways I got that can be applied to life and business…

1. when you get a second chance to make something right, don’t screw it up

2. reinvent yourself as you go along or it’ll be too late one day

3. Wrestling may be “fake”, but those guys are devoted to their job and are willing to work and suffer

4. keep promises to family and friends, don’t end up alone…

5. don’t waste the Bruce Springsteen tune in the white text on black end credits, use in the movie…

Well worth seeing it and it is less than 2 hours… Rourke is nominated for the Academy Award for acting, as is Tomei for Supporting Actress, and it deserved a Best Picture nod in my opinion… (Slumdog Millionaire was better and should win the Best Picture though) 

Seize the Day!

Rob

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