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A bell-ringing perfect Christmas present offering
from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment lands a knockout
blow and keeps punching above its weight all the way through the
seasonal period. Rocky The Complete Saga enters the ring as a box
set containing all six films in the franchise, from the Academy
Award®-winning Rocky to this year’s critically acclaimed Rocky Balboa.
- Rocky
(1976) Nominated for 10 Academy Awards® and
winner for Best Picture, Featuring a dynamic musical score, and thrilling
fight sequence and four Oscar-nominated performances, this rousing
crowd-pleaser will send spirits soaring. Rocky Balboa (Stallone) is a
Philadelphia club fighter who seems to be going nowhere. But when a stroke
of fate puts him in the ring with a world heavyweight champion, Rocky
knows that it’s his one shot at the big time – a once in a lifetime
opportunity to go the distance and come out a winner!
- Rocky II
(1979) Rocky’s dreams of winning the title
are shattered when his doctor advises him to stay away from the sport due
to a serious eye injury. Leading a ‘regular’ life however, becomes more
difficult than Rocky ever suspected. Although he has earned a healthy
bankroll from his boxing days, this leads to overspending and also
attracts worthless hangers-on. Adrian becomes pregnant, which leads Rocky
to re-examine his current situation. Meanwhile, Apollo Creed, offended by
so many who thought he actually lost the fight, begins to publicly taunt…
- Rocky III
(1982)
- At a ceremony in his honour, Rocky is celebrated with a bronze statue
on the steps of city hall. The champ thanks the crowd and begins an
unexpected retirement speech, but is interrupted but the fierce No.1
contender, Clubber Lang. Lang calls Rocky a coward and a bum, and even
insults Adrian as out breaks a fiasco.
- Rocky IV (1985) Rocky faces another formidable challenge in his
career. This time in the form of a Russian boxer named Drago (Dolph
Lundgren), an almost inhuman giant fighting-machine created in Russian
physical-fitness laboratories.
- Rocky V (1990) Rocky discovers that his years of boxing have
caused irreparable brain damage. Adding insult to injury, he also learns
that his accountant has not only gambled and lost all of his money, thanks
in part to his brother-in-law Paulie, but he owes a fortune to the
Internal Service as well. To cover the IRS Rocky must sell everything,
move out of his mansion and back to the modest surroundings of South
Philadelphia – back to his roots.
- Rocky Balboa (2006) A retired Rocky’s quiet world is suddenly
rocked when the current world champion Mason ‘The line’ Dixon (Antonio
Tarver) – throws down a challenge to the out to pasture stallion after
a computer simulated match hails an in-his-prime Rocky victorious over
him. Not one to back down, Rocky commits to the unthinkable - he agrees to
the fight of his life and pushes himself to the breaking point to go the
distance one last time.
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