Your birth year
2006
Rocky
1976
Rocky is 30 years older than you
It's from 1976, before you were born.
- Director
- John G. Avildsen
- Genre
- Sports drama
- Star
- Sylvester Stallone
- Released
- 1976
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About
As of 2026, it's 50 years old.
Rocky is the ultimate underdog story, and it's also one in real life: a broke, unknown Sylvester Stallone wrote it in a few days and refused to sell the script unless he could star, then watched his little movie about a club boxer going the distance win Best Picture. Art imitating a left hook.
The training montage, the run up the Philadelphia Museum steps, the desperate cry of 'Adrian!' — it built the entire vocabulary of the sports movie.
Scrappy, heartfelt, and genuinely inspiring, Rocky is the underdog film whose behind-the-scenes story is somehow as improbable as the one on screen.
