Gala Screenings
I Play Rocky
I Play Rocky is an electrifying true story about an unknown actor with an unshakable belief that he wasn’t just meant to write Rocky — he was meant to be Rocky Balboa. Told “no” at every turn, Sylvester Stallone (Anthony Ippolito) bets everything on himself, holding the line on playing the lead against seemingly impossible odds. The result is the ultimate underdog story behind the ultimate underdog movie. An Amazon MGM Studios release.
Actor Anthony Ippolito will receive the Breakthrough Award. A Q&A with Ippolito and actor AnnaSophia Robb immediately follows the screening.
Southeast premiere
DIRECTOR
Peter Farrelly
PRODUCERS
Toby Emmerich
Christian Baha
Peter Farrelly
Paul Currie
Michele Weiss
WRITER
Peter Gamble
CAST
Anthony Ippolito
AnnaSophia Robb
P.J. Byrne
Toby Kebbell
Tracy Letts
Jay Duplass
Matt Dillon
Stephan James
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
Peter Farrelly is a two-time Academy Award winner who has garnered notable and global commercial success and accolades for his three decades of raucously funny film and television projects. Farrelly’s films include Dumb and Dumber, There’s Something About Mary, Kingpin, Shallow Hal, Stuck on You, The Three Stooges, The Greatest Beer Run Ever, and Green Book, which won Oscars for Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay.