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Breaking Away is a 1979 American coming of age comedy-drama film produced and directed by Peter Yates and written by Steve Tesich. It follows a group of four male teenagers in Bloomington, Indiana, who have recently graduated from high school.
Jul 20, 1979 · Breaking Away: Directed by Peter Yates. With Dennis Christopher, Dennis Quaid, Daniel Stern, Jackie Earle Haley. A working-class Indiana teen obsessed with the Italian cycling team vies for the affections of a college girl while searching for life goals with his friends.
"Breaking Away" is a movie to embrace. It's about people who are complicated but decent, who are optimists but see things realistically, who are fundamentally comic characters but have three full dimensions.
In Bloomington, Indiana, recent high school graduate Dave Stoller (Dennis Christopher) carries a cycling trophy as he walks through the woods with his friends Mike (Dennis Quaid), Cyril (Daniel Stern), and Moocher (Jackie Earle Haley), on their way to swim at an abandoned, water-filled quarry.
Breaking Away. Dave (Dennis Christopher) and his working-class friends Cyril (Daniel Stern), Moocher (Jackie Earle Haley) and Mike (Dennis Quaid) spend their post-high school days in...
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Feb 24, 2010 · "Breaking Away" is a movie about four working class friends from a college town who are better know as "The Cutters" a term for the stone quarry workers from town who never got to go to college, and how cycling becomes their unexpected ticket into bigger and better things.
Feb 16, 2016 · Breaking Away became a sleeper hit, starting small and playing longer and longer in more and more venues until the film itself was a hit, breaking away from the competition. Today it is regarded as one of the best films of the seventies and a true classic.
An exceptionally well-written story about the lives **** of young men as they transition from high school to adulthood. That their futures will likely be dictated by their families’ limitations, adds resonance to this thoughtful comedy, and also serves as an indictment of the American dream.
Jan 10, 2011 · Peter Yates, who died Sunday, directed one of the most exciting bicycle-race films you will ever see, and one of the warmest coming-of-age stories, too: the 1979 drama Breaking Away.
Oct 5, 2012 · By Josh Rottenberg. Published on October 5, 2012 04:00AM EDT. It was a scorching August day when the stars of the 1979 film Breaking Away reunited at a velodrome in Los Angeles, but...
