When white - trash dreamer Hilary Swank wanders into
wise old trainer Clint Eastwood's backstreet gym, another Rocky fairytale looms, yet this modern fable takes us into darker territory — the perilous lure of success and the impassable road to redemption.
Seeing Stallone go from the young boxer to
the wise old trainer was something I don't think audiences were expecting gravitate towards like we did.
Not exact matches
Of course, Creed tracks down an
older,
wiser, and decidedly slower Rocky Balboa and through persistence and personality, convinces him to become his
trainer, while also courting his musician neighbor Bianca (Tessa Thompson) and trying to deal with the demons of his lineage and his own pride.