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The Bleeder

The greatest drama faced by the real-life Rocky Balboa

Hollywood Reporter
  • Archive - Festival 32
  • Director: Philippe Falardeau
  • USA 2016
  • 101 minutes
  • English
  • Subtitles in Hebrew

The Bleeder is the true story of Chuck Wepner, the man who inspired the billion-dollar film series Rocky—a liquor salesman from New Jersey who went 15 rounds with the greatest boxer of all time, Muhammad Ali. In his ten years in the ring, Wepner endured 2 knockouts, 8 broken noses, 313 stitches. But his toughest fights were outside the ring: an epic life of drugs, booze, wild women, incredible highs and extraordinary lows.
Filmography: My Internship in Canada (2015), The Good Lie (2014), Monsieur Lazhar (2011), It's Not Me, I Swear! (2008).


  • Director Philippe Falardeau
  • Production Liev Schreiber, Christa Campbell, Lati Grobman, Carl Hampe, Michael Tollin
  • Script Jeff Feuerzeig, Jerry Stahl
  • Cinematography Nicolas Bolduc
  • Editing Richard Comeau
  • Music Corey Allen Jackson
  • Festivals Venice, Toronto
  • Actors Liev Schreiber, Elisabeth Moss, Naomi Watts, Ron Perlman
  • Produced with support by United King Films, Ramat Hasharon
  • Source Nu Image / Millennium Films, Los Angeles

The Bleeder