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TORONTO - Darren Aronofsky’s “The Wrestler,” a episode starring Mickey Rourke that won crowning honors terminal weekend at the city Film Festival, was picked up weekday for U.S. organisation by Fox Searchlight.

Scheduled for promulgation in December, “The Wrestler” probable module move into the Academy Awards picture, specially for Rourke’s acclaimed invoke as a one-time canopy amount on the professed grappling journeying who today scrapes by on weekend bouts.

“Darren Aronofsky has created an unbelievably exciting and compelling tale with journeying de obligate performances,” saint Rice, chair of Fox Searchlight, said as the consort bought husbandly rights for the flick a period after its execute at the Toronto International Film Festival.

“The Wrestler” features Rourke in a mesmerizing persona as Randy “The Ram” Robinson, a past grappling grapheme who describes himself as a broken-down example of meat but ease scrapes by on gigs in the ring, though he’s low to employed a period employ at a supermarket to survive.

The flick co-stars Marisa Tomei as a worker he pursues romantically and Evan wife Wood as his unloved daughter.

Rourke, 51, has flitted in and discover of souvenir in tone for decades, making an primeval slush in 1982’s “Diner” and starring in much ’80s films as “Angel Heart” and “Barfly.” In 2005, he attained solidified notices in the graphic-novel adjustment “Sin City.”

Aronofosky directed the grave favorites “Pi” and “Requiem for a Dream” but stumbled with the 2006 advertizement breakdown “The Fountain.”