![]() ![]() He's simply trying to blend in and every time his legendary dad shows up, he is judged against him and embarrassed by the spectacle. ![]() ![]() Theirs is not really an estranged or difficult father-son relationship – there's clearly love between them – but Robert is oversensitive to people's judgments about him and his father. As Paulie points out, Rocky treated Adrian well and he didn't.Rocky's son Robert ( Heroes' Milo Ventimiglia), who has half-heartedly pursued a career in business, is trying to make his own way in the world and, as with all sons of famous fathers, lives in the shadow of a larger-than-life figure. Rocky still pals around with his boorish brother-in-law Paulie (Burt Young), but the boxer's melancholy trips down memory lane are too much for Paulie to continue to bear. Rocky now runs Adrian's, a restaurant where patrons come in just to hear some old fight stories. ROCKY BALBOA MUSIC PLAYLIST SERIESThe story has also taken away from the former champ his great love, wife Adrian (played in the series by Talia Shire), who has passed away from cancer in the years since Rocky V. Rocky Balboa, like Rocky V before it (the last "last Rocky movie"), returns "The Italian Stallion" to his Philly roots and strips him of his fortune but not his fame. Writer-director-star Sylvester Stallone's Rocky Balboa, the sixth and supposedly final installment in the franchise that launched with the 1976 Best Picture winner, is a fitting and moving swan-song to one of cinema's great underdogs. ![]()
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