Don't Miss the Acclaimed Movie "The Wrestler"

Actor Mickey Rourke's triumphant comeback role in director Darren Aronofsky's The Wrestler is sure to be Academy Award material, and interestingly, it also deals with the story of an older wrestler, like my Phaze short story "Better Late". Rourke's character is a down-on-his-luck former wrestler facing a series of personal and professional crises, and the film has been praised for its humanity as well as its accurate look at the unusual world of professional wrestling.

You can get a more romantic view of a pro wrestler character in "Better Late" (still available from Phaze Books), which tells the tale of the reunion between a wrestler and a woman who used to work with him as a publicist. Rourke's role in The Wrestler doesn't delve much into the erotic (though he does have a stripper girlfriend played by Marisa Tomei), but of course he was famous back in the day for his performance opposite the ravishing Kim Basinger in 1986's ultra-steamy Nine 1/2 Weeks.

If you want an amazing movie experience, I recommend The Wrestler, and if you want something a little hotter, I definitely recommend "Better Late" from Phaze Books!