Rocky [videorecording] / Metro Goldwyn Mayer ; United Artists ; a Robert Chartoff-Irwin Winkler production ; a John G. Avildsen film ; executive producer, Gene Kirkwood ; director of photography, James Crabe ; written by Sylvester Stallone ; produced by Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff ; directed by John G. Avildsen.
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FilmPublisher number: 106030 | MGM Home EntertainmentLanguage: English, French, Spanish Subtitle language: English, French, Spanish Series: Silvester Stallone Rocky anthologyPublication details: [Santa Monica, Calif.] : MGM, c2006.Description: 1 videodisc (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inSubject(s): Genre/Form: Production credits: - Music by Bill Conti ; art director, James H. Spencer ; edited by Richard Halsey ; executive in charge of production, Hal Polaire ; casting by Caro Jones ; production design by Bill Cassidy ; film editor, Scott Conrad ; looping editor, John Farrell ; boxing choreography, Sylvester Stallone ; costumer, Robert Cambel ; set decorator, Raymond Molyneaux.
- Academy Award for Best Picture, 1976.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone), a Philadelphia boxer, is but one step removed from total bum-hood. A once-promising pugilist, Rocky is now taking nickel-and-dime bouts and running strongarm errands for local loan sharks to survive. Even his supportive trainer, Mickey (Burgess Meredith), has given up on Rocky. All this changes thanks to Muhammad Ali-like super-boxer Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers). With the Bicentennial celebration coming up, Creed must find a "Cinderella" opponent for the big July 4th bout -- some unknown whom Creed can "glorify" for a few minutes before knocking him cold. Rocky Balboa was not the only Cinderella involved here: writer/director Sylvester Stallone, himself a virtual unknown, managed to sell his Rocky script (one of 35 that he'd written over the years) on the proviso that he be given the starring role. Since the film was to be made on a shoestring and marketed on a low-level basis, the risk factor to United Artists was small. For Stallone, this was a make-or-break opportunity -- just like Rocky's million-to-one shot with Apollo Creed. Costing under a million dollars, Rocky managed to register with audiences everywhere, earning back 60 times its cost. The film won several Academy Awards, including Best Picture. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
DVD; Region 1; widescreen.
English 5.1 DTS surround; English 5.1 Dolby Digital surround; English mono; French 5.1 Dolby Digital surround; Spanish mono.; optional English, French and Spanish subtitles; closed captioned.
Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers, Thayer David, Joe Spinell, Jimmy Gambina, George Memmoli, Bill Baldwin, Billy Sands, Don Sherman, Shirley O'Hara, Tony Burton, Jodi Letizia, Burgess Meredith, guest appearance by Joe Frazier.
Music by Bill Conti ; art director, James H. Spencer ; edited by Richard Halsey ; executive in charge of production, Hal Polaire ; casting by Caro Jones ; production design by Bill Cassidy ; film editor, Scott Conrad ; looping editor, John Farrell ; boxing choreography, Sylvester Stallone ; costumer, Robert Cambel ; set decorator, Raymond Molyneaux.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1976.
MPAA rating: PG.
Rocky Balboa, a club fighter seemingly going nowhere, gets his once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to go the distance and come out a winner when fate puts him in the ring with the world heavyweight champion.
Academy Award for Best Picture, 1976.