Rocky
            (1976)
        
                
            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!
        
        
                
            Directed by:
                        John G. Avildsen                    
        
                
            Starring:
                        Sylvester Stallone,                        Talia Shire,                        Burt Young,                        Carl Weathers,                        Burgess Meredith,                        Thayer David                    
        
                
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