Film

Rocky 1976

Directed by John G. Avildsen

  • Drama
  • 120 min
  • PG

Rotten Tomatoes91%Metacritic70

His whole life was a million-to-one shot.

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!

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Earnest, classical in form, resolved and grave.

  • earnestironic
  • classical in formformally daring
  • resolvedopen-ended
  • gravecomic
  • effortlessdemanding

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