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Rocky (1976)

Movie"His whole life was a million-to-one shot."
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Rocky Balboa is a Philadelphia club fighter who seems to be going nowhere. But when a stroke of fate puts him in the ring with a world heavyweight champion, Rocky knows that it's his one shot at the big time — a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to go the distance and come out a winner!
StarringSylvester StalloneTalia ShireBurt Young
DirectorJohn G. Avildsen

Movie Details

Theatrical Release:November 21st, 1976 - Buy Tickets
On DVD & Blu-ray:April 24th, 2001 - Buy DVD
Movie Budget:$1,000,000
Movie Box Office Gross:$225,253,184 (Worldwide)
Original Language:English
Executive Producers:Gene Kirkwood
Production Companies:Winkler Films
Rocky on the Web:Instagram, Facebook, Official Website, Twitter
Movie Tags:
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Rocky Collection

These sport drama films begin by telling the rags to riches American Dream story of Rocky Balboa, an uneducated but kind-hearted working class Italian-American boxer working as a debt collector for a loan shark in the slums of Philadelphia.