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I Play Rocky review

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  16 months later and 8 screenplays beckons I Play Rocky as after tirelessly attempting to write a screenplay to call his own Sylvester Stallone comes up with 'Rocky' which as we know the rest is history and as not only did Rocky get made into a movie but it became something much more, something larger than I even imagine Stallone thought it would become when he was writing it over the course of three and a half days in his apartment. Anthony Ippolito plays a young Sylvester 'Mike' Stallone who at the beginning is a real down on his luck actor. Taking any job he can just to survive. He ends up getting jobs here and there in between casting calls but ultimately it's a pretty barren life.  Sly's luck changes when two movie producers see his talent for writing and once they get to read his 'Rocky' screenplay a bidding war ensues leading to various big offers of money being offered to Sly to which he turns down every single time. Even as much as almost 400 t...