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Breaking Away

Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Team Marketing
EAN: 0024543029083
Format: Closed-captioned, 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: 7592
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: 1979

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Editorial Review:

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.

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




Rating: - inspirational script
An odd assortment of high school friends take a year off, wasting their time together, before the ... Read More

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Rating: - Way More Than A Movie About Bicycle Racing
Despite the fact that my husband went to graduate school in Bloomington, Indiana where BREAKING AWAY ... Read More

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Rating: - Awesome
Absolutely fabulous movie. It's funny, warm, entertaining. One of the best sports films ever made.

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Rating: - Breaking Away video
Received the video quickly. Although it was shrink-wrapped and listed as new, it has major tracking ... Read More

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Rating: - Great movie for everyone
This movie is known as a bike movie, but it's really a movie about growing up and leaving home. It has ... Read More

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