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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0024543029090
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: January 29, 2002
Running Time: 100 minutes
Sales Rank: 2418
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: July 20, 1979
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
Peter Yates's flag-waving film stands with To Kill a Mockingbird and American Graffiti as one of the best films about small-town Americana. Steve Tesich won an Oscar for his semi-biographical screenplay about four 19-year-olds who don't know what to do after high school. Dave Stohler (Dennis Christopher) and his three friends--ex-football star Mike (Dennis Quaid), wily comedian Cyril (Daniel Stern), and tough kid Moocher (Jackie Earle Haley)--are doomed to live in the college town of Bloomington, Indiana, where the local kids (nicknamed 'Cutters'--a derogatory reference to quarry workers and their blue-collar families) are looked down on by the uppity students of nearby Indiana University.
Stohler escapes into a world of Italian bicycling, picking up the lingo, the accent, and a good share of the talent of his heroes. He is also the scourge of his father's life. The used-car salesman (Paul Dooley) doesn't understand his son's affection for bicycling or, for that matter, his pride in being a 'Cutter.'
Breaking Away rehabilitates the word heartwarming as Tesich's uncommonly intelligent script gives us well-rounded characters and a potent sense of place. The grandstanding finale--the real life 'Little 500' bike race--gives the film a perfect, crowd-pleasing end. However, the film never sacrifices the development of characters for the action. Dooley is especially effective in one of those once-in-a-lifetime roles. The lifelong character actor's place in film history is established with this indispensable performance. --Doug Thomas
Description:
This charming, Academy Award winner (1979, Screenplay) cycles high on comedy as four friends come to terms with life after high school. When top-notch cyclist Dave (Dennis Christopher) learns that the world's bicycling champions are always Italian, he attempts to turn himself into an Italian, driving his parents (Barbara Barrie, Paul Dooley) crazy. But everything changes after he meets the Italian racing team-an encounter that ultimately leads him and his friends (Dennis Quaid, Daniel Stern, Jackie Earle Haley) to challenge the local college boys in the town's annual bike race.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - THE ITALIANS ARE COMING!
Two words: Dennis Quaid. He's so hot right now! This movie is a classic and anyone who hasn't seen it is a cinematic idiot.
Rating:  - Back home in Indiana
Having attended IU my Freshman year ('69/'70), I can attest that Breaking Away was certaingly not filmed on a Hollywood sound stage, but entirely in Bloomington, Indiana as the film's end credits proclaim. It is a delightful movie the whole family can enjoy. It is a relatively short movie with many funny moments (Paul Dooley is fantastic) and for me, reminiscent of my days at IU (the warm waters of the abandoned stone quarries, the beautiful IU library and the Little 500 race to name a few).
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Rating: - A great American movie set in a real, mythological American place
One of my favorite movies - so different from 99% of Hollywood movies that I am ashamed that my country produces and supports.
This movie is set in a specific place - Bloomington Indiana and the movie does an excellent job of taking us in to the real culture of real people - real Americans and we like these people, we relate to their fears and their dreams.
The hero Dave Stoehler is a romantic dreamer, but his dreams are just an extension of himself and his family. He is stretching ... Read More
Rating: - One of the few films that stands the test of time
In the 80s when Breaking Away was shown on HBO, my two sons, ages about 10 and 8, and I would watch it every time it was shown. Every time we loved it ... it's the perfect family and kids movie. It is funny without making the comedy come out of weird behavior as in many films today ... the humor in Breaking Away comes out of the story and is a part of it.
As usual with "little" films like this that are off-beat, in essence Hollywood ignored this film at the Academy Awards and it won only for ... Read More
Rating: - Showing its age
This is a charming little film but it is really beginning to show its age! Nice and eccentric but moves a little slowly at times...as a mad cyclist I loved it
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