Product Description

Rocky Balboa, club fighter from the mean streets of Philadelphia, gets an unlikely shot at the heavyweight championship of the world by taking on champion Apollo Creed. The irresistible story of the boxer who gives his all to win the championship title won Oscars for Best Picture and Best Director and catapulted Sylvester Stallone to superstardom.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #18261 in DVD
• Brand: Team Marketing
• Released on: 2001-04-24
• Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
• Formats: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: Spanish, French
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .0" h x .0" w x .0" l, 1.00 pounds
• Running time: 119 minutes

Amazon.com
The only remaining evidence that Sylvester Stallone might have had a respectable career, this 1976 Oscar^® winner (for Best Picture, Director, and Editing) is still the quintessential ode to an underdog and one of the best boxing movies ever made. After writing the script about a two-bit boxer who gets a "million-to-one shot" against the world heavyweight champion, Stallone insisted that he star in the title role, and his equally unknown status helped to catapult him (and this rousing film) to overnight success. The story is familiar, but it's handled with such vitality and emotional honesty that you can't help but leap and cheer for Rocky Balboa, the chump-turned-champ who stuns the boxing world with the support of his timid girlfriend Adrian (Talia Shire) and grizzled trainer Gus (Burgess Meredith). Oscar nominations went to all the lead actors (including Burt Young as Adrian's hot-tempered brother), but four sequels could never top the universal appeal of this low-budget crowd pleaser. --Jeff Shannon

Customer Reviews

Rocky DVD
The case was extremely thin, not like a normal DVD case. However, it was worth the price. I gave it a 3 because I did not like the movie. I had bought it for my boyfriend, who does like it.

The Greatest Sports Movie of All Time
If I could give 10 stars to a movie, I would and I'd give it to Rocky. Rocky is one of those timeless movies you will never forget once you see it. Sylvester Stallone did a fabulous job as the screen writer, director, and portraying this legendary character as well. I beleive Rocky will go down in history as the greatest sports movie of all time in anybody's book.

Rocky Balboa(Sylvester Stallone) is a young, new, upcoming ameteur boxer in the city of Philadeplhia. After coming off a big fight in his view, Rocky finds himself being pushed away by his local boxing buddies and his trainer, Mickey(Meredith Burgess). After losing his locker at the gym, Rocky takes a break from the boxing scene and focuses more on the local pet store girl Adrianne(Talia Shire).

While promoting a big fight in Philadephia, the current world heavyweight boxing champion Apollo Creed(Carl Weathers) is trying to find a new contender for his title. In doing so, he comes across a local ameteur boxer, the Italian Stallion Rocky Balboa.

Once Rocky realizes he is the number one contender for the world heavyweight title and believing he has no chance in winnig this fight, he soon begins training. With help from Adrianne, his friend Pauly(Burt Young), and his trainer Mickey, Rocky becomes ready for the biggest fight of his life.

Thinking he will just fly by Rocky, Creed treats the whole fight as a joke. Soon finding out that Rocky is for real, Creed realizes that Rocky is no fly by contender and sees that Rocky wants to be world champion. As the fight progresses, Rocky takes it to the world champion round for round and not holding up one bit. After going the distance with the champ, Rocky doesn't find himself holding the world title but something better. His true love, Adrianne.

Rocky is a great movie. This movie is great for everybody. Rocky is a classic. It forever will be.

This movie has heart.
This movie has heart: it has the look and feel of inner-city or working class Philadelphia. The characters are rich in texture. As I watched the movie, I felt for all of them. They are the kind of people that I grew up with: uneducated, loud-mouthed, prone to emotional outbursts-but each has a secret tragedy underneath their blaring exterior. The acting is, in that regard, brilliant; from the lead players (Rocky and Adrian) to the supporting characters like Paulie, Mickey, even the antagonist Apollo Creed. The writing is not overdone; not too obvious. Compared to this poignant melodrama the other Rocky movies seem contrived and the characters in those other movies are more one-dimensional.

This movie also has a certain "tone"; not the blockbuster "Rocky saves the day" tone of the other Rocky movies. In this original Rocky, he is a man against himself. The tone is low-key, slower, and it is more about interesting characters than "Rocky vs. the Evil Clubber Lang" or "Rocky vs. the Evil Russian". In the original Rocky, he is not a superstar, but rather a talented amateur with the heart to go the distance of someone truly out of his league.

There is also powerful message here; concerning the love Rocky and his girlfriend Adrian have for each other.