Rocky
His whole life was a million-to-one shot.
Rocky Balboa is a Philadelphia club fighter who seems to be going nowhere.But when a stroke of fate puts him in the ring with a world heavyweight champion, Rocky knows that it's his one shot at the big time — a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to go the distance and come out a winner!
- Director
- John G. Avildsen
- Signature
- Craft · Drama · Tension
- Worldwide
- $117M
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Rocky Balboa is a Philadelphia club fighter who seems to be going nowhere. But when a stroke of fate puts him in the ring with a world heavyweight champion, Rocky knows that it's his one shot at the big time — a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to go the distance and come out a winner!
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Box Office & Release
Rocky returned 117.3× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $1M
- Opening weekend
- —
- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $117M
- Release date
- Dec 3, 1976
- Runtime
- 2h 0m
- MPAA rating
- —
- Language
- English, Spanish
- Country
- United States of America
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