He has a couple of turtles at home, named Cuff and Link, and a goldfish named Moby Dick.
He is awkwardly in love with a painfully shy girl ( Talia Shire) who works in the corner pet shop. And yet there's a secret life behind his facade. He coulda been good, but he smokes and drinks beer and screws around. In his spare time, he works out at Mickey's gym. By day, he works as an enforcer for a small-time juice man, offering to break a man's thumbs over a matter of $70 ("I'll bandage it!" cries the guy. It inhabits a curiously deserted Philadelphia: There aren't any cars parked on the slum street where Rocky lives or the slightest sign that anyone else lives there.
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