How “I Play Rocky” and “Ebenezer” Breathe New Life Into Beloved Cinematic Legends

Like Sylvester Stallone, director Peter Farrelly – he of Dumb and Dumber , There’s Something About Mary and virtually every gross-out hit of the early 2000s – knows how to please an audience. Maybe that mutual knack for popcorn escapism is what drew Farrelly to I Play Rocky , which tells the real-life story of Stallone’s underdog struggle to make the original 1976 Rocky . Working from a script by Peter Gamble, Farrelly revives a famous bit of Hollywood lore: the fact that Stallone, who has becom