..Perhaps it was my fault for not telling you something about it before...You see, dear, your mother is not really old.She can have admirers, too.She can even...well...be in love with a man.Someday, you""ll understand better what that means.Besides, you know how hard it is for us o get along on my small pension.Herr Kastner has a comfortable business in Linz, a military tailor.And he has...he has done me he honor of asking me to marry him.The news is devastating for Lisa, for she knows that her growing attraction to the pianist may be taken away.The director of the originalRocky (1976)film, Oscar-winning Best Director John Avildsen, returned after three Sylvester Stallone directorships, to helm this fourth sequel.But she expresses pessimism: "...It won""t happen." But Norman has great confidence: "No, it might happen very easily.Only the dream isn""t big enough." He again asks her to give up her small-time band for a chance at a movie career.He advises her:Listen to me, Esther, a career is a curious thing.Talent isn""t always enough.You need a sense of timing - an eye for seeing the turning point or recognizing the big chance when it comes along and grabbing it.They returned o a slightly similar theme two years later in their screenplay forBall of Fire (1941).Other spin-offs of the Ninotchka theme include MGM""sComrade X (1940)with Clark Gable and Hedy Lamarr (in he Soviet Union), andThe Iron Petticoat (1956)with Katharine Hepburn and Bob Hope (in London).Maggie Burroughs (Lisa Zane):juvenile delinquent stoner and video games addict Spencer (Breckin Meyer), who was having a brief meeting with his overbearing, demanding affluent father.