Title: Rocky

Date: 1976
Type: Action / Drama
Rating: 3/5
Colour: Yes
Director: John Avildsen
Producer:

Comment
Sylvester Stallone wrote and starred in this the first of the Rocky films. Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) is a small time boxer whose day job is as a debt collector and has a shy friend (Talia Shire) who works in a pet shop. He gets the opportunity to go from nobody to somebody when he gets the chance to fight the world champion in an exhibition fight. This was a good idea for one film, but it spawned a whole series of sequels, though it did earn Sylvester Stallone his first Oscar nomination.
Actors
Sylvester Stallone
Burgess Meredith
Talia Shire
Burt Young
Carl Weathers
Oscars
Won - Best Picture
Nomination - Best Actor - Sylvester Stallone
Nomination - Best Actress - Talia Shire
Nomination - Best Supporting Actor - Burgess Meredith
Nomination - Best Supporting Actor - Burt Young
Writer
Sylvester Stallone