Rocky V Summary
MPAA Rating: PG13
Director: John G. Avildsen
Genres: Drama
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Touted upon its release as the finale of the Rocky saga, this fifth entry in the long-running series of sports dramas reunites star Sylvester_Stallone with John_G._Avildsen, director of the Oscar-winning original. Stallone is Rocky Balboa, suffering from career-ending brain damage as a result of his punishing bout with Ivan Drago at the finale of the previous film. Upon their return to Philadelphia, Rocky and his wife, Adrian (Talia_Shire), discover they are broke, their fortune squandered by an incompetent accountant. Forced to move back to their working-class neighborhood, Rocky finds that his only asset is the run-down gym willed to him by Mickey (Burgess_Meredith, who appears in new flashback sequences). Resisting big money offered to him by Don_King-like boxing promoter George Washington Duke (Richard_Gant), Rocky becomes a trainer and finds a talented comer in Tommy Gunn (real-life boxer Tommy_Morrison, nephew of John_Wayne). Rocky's son (played by Stallone's real-life son Sage_Stallone) feels neglected by his father, who lavishes attention on his prot
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