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Sylvester Stallone's Rocky origin story is punching its way onto the silver screen with Peter Farrelly directing (www.joblo.com)
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A struggling actor with a partially paralyzed face and a speech impediment writes a script that a big movie studio wants to buy, but he refuses to sell it unless he gets to play the lead. Turning down an offer of life-changing money, he instead works for pennies to get the movie made with himself in the starring role. The movie becomes the biggest box office hit of 1976, notching ten Oscar nominations and winning Best Picture. The true story of the making of the iconic movie Rocky.

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[-] supertinkers@sh.itjust.works -1 points 5 months ago

How much did his mom give him to make the movie? I know she was a famous actress.

[-] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 5 months ago

Stallone?

His mom owned a salon in the 70s. She didn't really get famous till the 80s/90s, well after her son.

[-] scorpious@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

No.

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