It includes us emotionally, it makes us pledge ourselves: We find, maybe to our surprise after remaining detached during so many movies, that this time we care. It sounds not only clichéd but corny - and yet it's not because it really does work on those levels. It's about heroism and recognizing your potential, about taking your best shot and sticking by your girl. What makes the movie astonishing is that it doesn't try to shock us with an original plot, with twists and complications it wants to include us on a rudimentary, sometimes violent, level. Also starring in Rocky are Talia Shire as Adrian, Burt Young as Adrian's brother Paulie, Burgess Meredith as Mickey Goldmill, Rocky's coach, and Carl Weathers as the champion, Apollo Creed. Balboa is also a beginner boxer who gets a shot at the world heavyweight championship when the planned contender breaks his hand. It conveys the rags-to-riches American Dream story of Rocky Balboa ( Sylvester Stallone), an uneducated but good-hearted debt collector for a credit shark in Philadelphia. Rocky is a 1976 drama film directed by John G. Welcome to the official Film/Art Gallery collection of original Rocky vintage movie posters, where we offer a wide range of artwork for the first entry in the ultimate boxing drama film series.
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