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Rocky (film)

Rocky
Rocky poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed by John G. Avildsen
Produced by
Written by Sylvester Stallone
Starring
Music by Bill Conti
Cinematography James Crabe
Edited by
Production
companies
Chartoff-Winkler Productions
Distributed by United Artists
Release date
  • November 21, 1976 (1976-11-21) (New York City premiere)
  • December 3, 1976 (1976-12-03) (United States)
Running time
119 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $1.1 million
Box office $225 million
Actor Role
Sylvester Stallone Robert "Rocky" Balboa
Talia Shire Adrianna "Adrian" Pennino
Burt Young Paulie Pennino
Carl Weathers Apollo Creed
Burgess Meredith Mickey Goldmill
Thayer David Miles Jergens
Joe Spinell Tony Gazzo
Tony Burton Tony "Duke" Evers
Pedro Lovell Spider Rico

Rocky is a 1976 American sports drama film directed by John G. Avildsen and both written by and starring Sylvester Stallone. It tells the rags to riches American Dream story of Rocky Balboa, an uneducated but kind-hearted working class Italian-American boxer working in a meat warehouse and as a debt collector for a loan shark in the slums of Philadelphia. Rocky starts out as a small-time club fighter, and later gets a shot at the world heavyweight championship. The film also stars Talia Shire as Adrian, Burt Young as Adrian's brother Paulie, Burgess Meredith as Rocky's trainer Mickey Goldmill, and Carl Weathers as the champion, Apollo Creed.

The film, made on a budget of just over $1 million and shot in 28 days, was a sleeper hit; it earned $225 million in global box office receipts, becoming the highest-grossing film of 1976, and went on to win three Oscars, including Best Picture. The film received many positive reviews and turned Stallone into a major star. In 2006, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". Rocky is considered to be one of the greatest sports films ever made and was ranked as the second-best in the genre, after Raging Bull, by the American Film Institute in 2008.


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