Breaking Away

  • Drama
  • Comedy
5/24/1979
101
PG

The movie that tells you exactly what you can do with your high school diploma!

Dave, nineteen, has just graduated high school, with his three friends: the comical Cyril, the warm hearted but short-tempered Moocher, and the athletic, spiteful but good-hearted Mike. Now, Dave enjoys racing bikes and hopes to race the Italians one day, and even takes up the Italian culture, much to his friends' and parents' annoyance.

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Revenue:
$20,000,000
Budget:
$2,300,000

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  • Wuchak

    Hanging out at the local quarry the year after high school and much more

    The son of a working class family in Bloomington (Christopher Dennis) is obsessed with Italy and bicycling as he hangs with his three cutter buds (Dennis Quaid, Jackie Earle Haley and Daniel Stern). He deals with his amusing parents (Paul Dooley and Barbara Barrie) while chasing a college lass (Robyn Douglass). Everything leads to the Little 500 bicyclist race at Indiana University.

    Breaking Away (1979) wisely focuses on the characters rather than bicycling and is comparable to Dead Poets Society from a decade later. Its a coming-of-age drama with lighthearted bits, but its definitely not a comedy, as Ive seen it wrongly designated.

    Its about young peop...

    November 18, 2024

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