Rocky

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Rocky

PG

1976

2h 0m

Drama

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Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone), a small-time boxer from working-class Philadelphia, is arbitrarily chosen to take on the reigning world heavyweight champion, Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers), when the undefeated fighter's scheduled opponent is injured. While training with feisty former bantamweight contender Mickey Goldmill (Burgess Meredith), Rocky tentatively begins a relationship with Adrian (Talia Shire), the wallflower sister of his meat-packer pal Paulie (Burt Young).

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Critics Consensus

This story of a down-on-his-luck boxer is thoroughly predictable, but Sylvester Stallone's script and stunning performance in the title role brush aside complaints.

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Peter Bradshaw

Guardian

4 days ago

5/5

It’s a forthright, rousingly idealistic film, wholesome in its essential patriotism, and which unselfconsciously shrugs off the boxing-movie’s gloomy generic inheritance, throwing away its grim traditional baggage of tragedy, cynicism and loss.

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Charles Champlin

Los Angeles Times

Nov 6, 2026

Rocky seems as brilliantly orchestrated as a fine if raucous symphony, alternating tumults and solitudes, humor, anger, small rejections and small victories, building to an ending which is surprising, ingenious, logical and blissfully pleasing.

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Desmond Ryan

Philadelphia Inquirer

Nov 6, 2026

It is dated, to be sure, but the actors and Avildsen plus Stallone's canny ear for dialogue enrich the film and lend it a contemporary vitality. Everybody in Rocky is three-dimensional and vibrantly alive.

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Pedro Gallego

Espinof

10 hrs ago

4/5

Rocky remains a prime example of how aspiring to make Hollywood in the truest sense can result in something remarkable and enduring. [Full review in Spanish]

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Rachel Wagner

Rachel's Reviews (YouTube)

Nov 6, 2026

One of the great underdog sports movies ever made

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Liane Heller

Waterloo Region Record

Nov 6, 2026

Rocky is a movie for lovers. It's for desperate and unhappy people. It's for cynics and romantics. It's for people who have nothing to lose... If that sounds unabashedly sentimental, fine. That's how Rocky makes you feel.

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snafu

1 day ago

Still awesome and inspirational after half a century. Adrian!!!

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Thomas G

1 day ago

It’s my all time favorite movie. Cinematic masterpiece. They don’t make movies like this anymore.

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Roman

1 day ago

One of the greatest movies ever made and a phenomenal masterpiece

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Magno

1 day ago

Rocky is a classic movie. A 70's movie which inspired the 80's movies without let behind the reality usually employed on 70's moive.

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Alexander J D

1 day ago

The film gets better and better each year!

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Danny C

2 days ago

A forever classic...

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John G. Avildsen

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Sylvester Stallone

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Talia Shire

Adrian

Burgess Meredith

Mickey

Burt Young

Paulie

Carl Weathers

Apollo

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Synopsis

Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone), a small-time boxer from working-class Philadelphia, is arbitrarily chosen to take on the reigning world heavyweight champion, Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers), when the undefeated fighter's scheduled opponent is injured. While training with feisty former bantamweight contender Mickey Goldmill (Burgess Meredith), Rocky tentatively begins a relationship with Adrian (Talia Shire), the wallflower sister of his meat-packer pal Paulie (Burt Young).

Director: John G. Avildsen
Producer: Irwin Winkler, Robert Chartoff
Screenwriter: Sylvester Stallone
Distributor: CBS/Fox, United Artists, MGM/UA Home Entertainment Inc.
Production Co: United Artists
Rating: PG
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Dec 1, 1976, Wide
Rerelease Date (Theaters): Nov 7, 2026
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 31, 2015
Runtime: 2h 0m
Sound Mix: Mono
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)

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