Rocky Balboa (film)
Rocky Balboa also known as Rocky VI is a 2006 American sports drama film written, directed by, and starring Sylvester Stallone who reprises his role as the title character. It is the sixth installment in the Rocky franchise with Balboa in retirement, a widower living in Philadelphia, and the owner and operator of a local Italian restaurant called Adrians, named after his late wife.
Former Philadelphia boxer Rocky Balboa has been retired from boxing for twenty years and lives a quiet life as a widower following the death of his wife, Adrian Pennino Balboa, due to cancer four years earlier. He runs a small, but successful Italian restaurant named after her, where he regales his patrons with stories of his past. He also battles personal demons involving his grief over Adrians death, the changing times, and his eroding relationship with his son Robert, a struggling corporate employee. Paul Paulie Pennino, Rockys brotherinlaw and best friend, continues to keep by his side, but is tired of reliving the past.Late one night, Rocky reunites with a mucholder Little Marie, a once mischievous neighborhood girl Rocky met when she was a child, now working as a bartender at Rockys former neighborhood bar, the Lucky Seven. She is a single parent of a teenaged son born out of wedlock Stephenson, nicknamed Steps. Rockys friendship with the two blossoms over the following weeks. Marie becomes a hostess at his restaurant and Steps takes to him as a father figure. ........
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