I PLAY ROCKY

Directors: Peter Farrelly
Starring: Anthony Ippolito, Tracy Letts, AnnaSophia Robb, P.J. Byrne, Toby Kebbell, Jay Duplass, Kiki Seto, Matt Dillon, Stephan James

One of the most inspiring films of all time is Rocky written and starring Sylvester Stallone. Stallone’s journey to making that film is the premise behind the new film, I Play Rocky. Anthony Ippolito first played a young Al Pacino in The Offer, which was about the making of The Godfather and now he plays a young Sylvester Stallone in I Play Rocky. This picks up in the early 1970s when Sly was a struggling, aspiring actor. He’s told he doesn’t have the looks, he speaks funny and has a hard time getting hired. It’s his new girlfriend, Sasha (AnnaSophia Robb), who convinces him to use his real name instead of a stage name and to write a movie for himself to star in. He catches a Muhammad Ali fight will sitting in a pub, and it inspires the film we now know as Rocky. Tracy Letts stars as Sandy Maddox, a studio exec who loves the script but wants a well-known A-list actor to lead it. Sly refuses and fights his way to playing the title character. In theaters

Here’s my review