Movie review: ‘I Play Rocky’

I’m just as surprised as you that I loved “I Play Rocky.” To be completely honest, this was one of the movies I was least excited about seeing this year and almost went to see something else instead. I wasn’t particularly captivated by the trailer, and the big looming questions in my mind were, “Why did this movie get made? And do we really care about how “Rocky” came to fruition?” Well, joke’s on me because it turns out you should care about why this movie was made because it is one of the best Hollywood underdog stories of all time and makes for a rousing, inspiring crowd-pleaser. Set in the 1970s, “I Play Rocky” tells the true story of how the down-on-his-luck actor/writer Sylvester Stallone (Anthony Ippolito) took the “Rocky” script, which he wrote in 3 1/2 days, to Oscar and box-office greatness. The film shows all of the sacrifices Stallone went through to finally accomplish his dreams.

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