Bruce Springsteen - The Wrestler (Video Lyrics)

This beautiful film won the Golden Lion at the 65th Venice International Film Festival in 2008 and features the remarkable performance of Mickey Rourke, who was fifty-six at the time.

At just sixteen, Philip André Rourke Jr., an avid cigarette smoker, was a regular at a famous boxing gym on Fifth Street in Miami Beach. He became one of the most promising young boxers and was called to be a sparring partner for the then welterweight world champion. Due to serious injuries sustained during sparring matches, he reluctantly decided to leave boxing behind (despite his amateur career having led him to win 20 matches, 17 by KO, and for the record, he lost 4).

Thus, he changed direction and headed to New York, where with money loaned to him by his sister Patty, he enrolled at the prestigious "Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute," studying "method acting" alongside Alfredo James "Al" Pacino, with those professors who trained actors of the caliber of Robert Anthony "Bob" De Niro Jr., Ronald "Christopher" Walken, and among others, also trained at that school were: Alexander Rae "Alec" Baldwin III, Steven Vincent "Steve" Buscemi, Rosario Isabel Dawson, Rebecca De Mornay, Laura Dern, Matthew Raymond "Matt" Dillon, Scarlett Johansson, Angelina Jolie, Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, also known as Lady Gaga, Brandon Bruce Lee, Norma Jeane Mortenson, also known as Marilyn Monroe, Tyrone William Power IV, Theresa Lynn Russell, Omar Sharif Jr. (his grandfather was the late Omar Sharif), Mary Elizabeth "Sissy" Spacek, Uma Karuna Thurman, Jon Voight, and nothing...