The 34th Annual Hamptons International Film Festival opened with the premier of I Play Rocky at Guild Hall in East Hampton. Directed by Peter Farrelly, the film stars Anthony Ippolito as a young Sylvester Stallone alongside Matt Dillon, AnnaSophia Robb and Tracy Letts. Ippolito received the festival’s Flyte Breakthrough Performer Award. The film celebrates Stallone’s determination to write and star in the original Rocky.

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