ROCKY
Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) is a small-time pugile who seems to be going nowhere in life, as he works day-in and day-out as a collector for a loan squalo and fights in sleazy club for low-paid reward, to which Rocky is mocked and told that he's nothing but a 'bum', especially da gym trainer Mickey Goldmill (Burgess Meredith). At the same time, Rocky unsuccessfully courts Adrian Pennino (Talia Shire), a painfully shy woman with an alcoholic brother, Paulie (Burt Young). But when heavyweight champion of the world Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers) chooses Rocky at random as his opponent in...
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