The Wrestler

The Wrestler (2008)

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Corrected entry: At the beginning of the movie Randy's van is missing the passenger side view mirror, but later in the movie it reappears.

Correction: The fact that you have stated that the side-view mirror appears "later in the movie" invalidates this mistake, because Randy could very well have had that mirror fixed/reattached, at some point off-screen. It would be a legitimate mistake if the mirror would suddenly appear between shots, with no time to have fixed it.

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Corrected entry: Evan Rachel Wood is billed as Stephanie Robinson, but that can't be her name. The main character's real name - as revealed in the hospital, pharmacy and supermarket - is Robin Ramzinsky. Randy Robinson is his stage name, and Stephanie hates him, so why would she use it?

Correction: Robinson could have been her mother's last name.

Corrected entry: In the barbed-wire/staple-gun match, the hillbilly character ends up with a $5 bill stapled to his forehead over his left eyebrow. But when we see him in flashback stapling it, it's much closer to the center of his forehead.

Correction: The stapling was real. The wrestler's name is Necro Butcher and he only did it one time.

The mistake is valid. When he is shown stapling the bill into his forehead, the staple is around his glabella, near the inside corner of his left eyebrow, but when the doctor is removing the staple, it is higher up on his forehead and closer to the outside corner of the eyebrow. He may have only performed it once on camera, but that doesn't mean he didn't do it again for the sake of continuing to film the scene at different times.

Phaneron

Continuity mistake: In the scene where Mickey Rourke's character has decided to wrestle again toward the end of the film, there is a sequence where you see him prepping to wrestle again, part of his prep is shaving his arm pits. When he arrives to the arena to wrestle, there is a brief shot of him sitting in a chair, in that scene he lifts his arms and you can see hair in his armpits.

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Trivia: Hulk Hogan claimed he was offered the lead role in this film, which director Darren Aronofsky has disputed. Randy the Ram appears to be partially inspired by Hogan, given he was a megastar in the 80's, has bleach-blonde hair and a tanned skin complexion, and occasionally calls people "brother."

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