Screening of the documentary 'I Play Rocky', directed by Peter Farrelly, about the making of the film 'Rocky', at Phoenix Picturehouse in Oxford.
I Play Rocky screens at Phoenix Picturehouse on Friday 6 November. It's directed by Peter Farrelly and stars Toby Kebbell, Tracy Letts, Jay Duplass, Matt Dillon, P.J. Byrne, Anthony Ippolito, Annasophia Robb and Stephan James.
The film tells the true story behind the making of Rocky. It follows a struggling actor with a partially paralysed face and a speech impediment who writes a script that a big movie studio wants to buy, but he refuses to sell it unless he gets to play the lead. Turning down an offer of life-changing money, he instead works for pennies to get the movie made with himself in the starring role. The film went on to become the biggest box office hit of 1976, notching ten Oscar nominations and winning Best Picture.
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It's showing at Phoenix Picturehouse in Oxford, a historic century-old cinema whose building, the North Oxford Kinema on Walton Street, opened in 1913 and was later renamed the Scala in 1920 before becoming the first Picturehouse venue in 1989. The screening is on 6 November.
