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Anthony Ippolito Anchors I Play Rocky as a Young Sylvester Stallone
Anthony Ippolito channels Sylvester Stallone as the film shows a $1 million budget, a last-minute cast demand and a move to Philadelphia.
- Director Peter Farrelly's 128-minute film 'I Play Rocky' chronicles Sylvester Stallone's struggle to produce his breakout boxing classic, focusing on his refusal to sell the script unless he starred in the title role.
- Inspiration struck Stallone in 1975 after witnessing the Muhammad Ali-Chuck Wepner fight; recently homeless and struggling to find work, he penned the screenplay in three-and-a-half days.
- Producers Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff ferried offers to Stallone, who turned down $360,000 to option the script without his casting; the production proceeded with a $1 million budget directed by John G. Avildsen.
- Anthony Ippolito anchors the film with a transformative performance capturing Stallone's voice and demeanor, while AnnaSophia Robb provides emotional depth as Sasha Czack, Stallone's girlfriend who encouraged him to write the script.
- Arriving near the 50th anniversary of the original 'Rocky,' Farrelly's biographical drama rejects nostalgia for punchy, screwball momentum, serving as a reminder of the industry's risk-averse nature compared to the era when the original film was made.
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Movie Review: In ‘I Play Rocky,’ a middleweight crowd-pleaser about the making of a classic – WTOP News
“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...
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Movie Review: In ‘I Play Rocky,’ a middleweight crowd-pleaser about the making of a classic
“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…
·Toronto, Canada
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