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MPAA Rating: PG Content Advisory: Violence, Questionable for Children, Adult Language, Profanity Movie Release: 1982 DVD Release: 03/18/2003 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV Audio Tracks: English, French, Spanish Subtitles: French, Spanish SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 39 mins Studio: MGM Members Wishing: 3 Genres: Drama, Melodrama, Sports Drama See Also: Rocky III

Sylvester Stallone returns to the character which made him famous in this wildly successful sequel. Rocky III starts with the Italian Stallion so famous that his likeness is everywhere, including pinball machines. Fame and complacency soon cause Balboa to lose his title to young thug Clubber Lang (Mr. T), who inadvertently causes the death of Rocky's beloved trainer, Mickey (Burgess Meredith), before their first championship bout. After sinking into a depression, Balboa must regain the love and support of his family, as well as the elusive "eye of the tiger," the hungry need to beat the opponent which former foe Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers) teaches him during this film's de rigueur training sequence. In the end, Balboa faces off against Lang for a second time. "Eye of the Tiger," the theme song Stallone commissioned from the band Survivor, became a huge hit single. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide

Sylvester Stallone - Rocky Balboa
Carl Weathers - Apollo Creed
Mr. T - Clubber Lang
Talia Shire - Adrian
Burt Young - Paulie
Burgess Meredith - Mickey

This double-sided, widescreen anamorphic (1.85:1 ratio) DVD comes in a five-part boxed set that includes all the Rocky movies from one to five. Special features on the =Rocky DVD -- extra footage cut from the final version of the film, a making-of featurette, audio commentary by the director, and a long interview with Sylvester Stallone -- do not appear on this DVD except for theatrical trailers (all of which also appear on =Rocky). Subtitles are also missing. The Dolby Digital sound quality is clear, but the bass is barely adequate. Picture quality is similar to that of a VHS video. The usual chapter index is also included. ~ Craig Chalquist, All Movie Guide