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November 6, 2026

At The Movies: ‘I Play Rocky' is a middleweight crowd-pleaser

By JAKE COYLE
AP Film Writer

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I Play Rocky tells the true, behind-the-scenes underdog story of how Sylvester Stallone brought the iconic 1976 boxing classic Rocky to the big screen.

“I Play Rocky,” Peter Farrelly's comic and crowd-pleasing tale about the making of “Rocky,” might seem like a one-two punch of pure nostalgia. It's been almost exactly 50 years since Sylvester Stallone's breakthrough boxing classic first arrived in theaters. You need hardly more than a few Philadelphia steps or a holler of “Adrian” to summon its still-ubiquitous cultural presence.


 
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