The Comeback Kids: Movies That Resurrected Actors’ Careers

Beaten And Bruised

Mickey Rourke was a successful amateur boxer turned successful actor, and became sex symbol from 9 1/2 Weeks and Rumblefish. After getting a lot of flack for his character in Wild Orchid, he became his own worst enemy, turning down a number of successful films like Pulp Fiction and Platoon. He instead returned to boxing, which he did well in, though he needed plastic surgery to fix his messed-up face. He then successfully returned to the big screen in Sin City and Domino, which led him tothe award-winning role of Randy “The Ram” Robinson in The Wrestler. This really shot him back to celeb status.