Rocky

(1976)

★ 8.1 IMDb · 683,546 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 1976

Runtime: 120 min

Country: United States of America

Director: John G. Avildsen

Cast: Сильвестр Сталлоне, Талия Шайр, Бёрт Янг, Карл Уэзерс, Бёрджесс Мередит

Plot

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!

Rocky Balboa is a struggling boxer trying to make the big time, working as a debt collector for a pittance. When heavyweight champion Apollo Creed visits Philadelphia, his managers want to set up an exhibition match between Creed and a struggling boxer, touting the fight as a chance for a "nobody" to become a "somebody". The match is supposed to be easily won by Creed, but someone forgot to tell Rocky, who sees this as his only shot at the big time.