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Library Film
Series Features Rocky
Rocky is a 1976 American sports drama film directed by John G. Avildsen
and both written by and starring Sylvester Stallone. It tells the rags
to riches American Dream story of Rocky Balboa, an uneducated but
kind-hearted working class Italian-American boxer working as a debt
collector for a loan shark in the slums of Philadelphia. Rocky starts
out as a small-time club fighter, and later gets a shot at the world
heavyweight championship.
The film, made on a budget of just over $1 million and shot in 28 days,
was a sleeper hit; it earned $225 million in global box office
receipts, becoming the highest-grossing film of 1976, and went on to
win three Oscars, including Best Picture. The film received many
positive reviews and turned Stallone into a major star. In 2006, the
film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film
Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically
or aesthetically significant". Rocky is considered to be one of the
greatest sports films ever made and was ranked as the second-best in
the genre, after Raging Bull, by the American Film Institute in 2008.
Join us Thursday July 20th at 7:00 p.m. Ryan Carpe will be
leading a brief discussion after the movie and as always there will be
free theater popcorn, candy, coffee, and Jones Soda. We hope to
see you there!
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