Breaking Away (Widescreen Edition)

Breaking Away (Widescreen Edition)
by Peter Yates

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Actor: Barbara Barrie, Daniel Stern, Dennis Christopher, Dennis Quaid, Jackie Earle Haley
Director: Peter Yates
Brand: TCFHE
Cinematographer: Matthew F. Leonetti
Producer: Peter Yates
Editor: Cynthia Scheider
Producer: Art Levinson
Writer: Steve Tesich
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); French (Original Language); Italian (Original Language); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 101 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-01-29
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: 20th Century Fox

DVD Reviews of Breaking Away (Widescreen Edition)

DVD Review: Last summer of adolescence
Summary: 5 Stars

In short a super movie about growing up and breaking free in midwest America.
Loved the comradeship of the boys "the Cutters" and the star whose adolescent, happy-go-lucky, was such a comic relief and nicely counterweighed by the gloomy Dennis Quaid as young as you ever seen him on film.

The soundtrack was especially memorable and never has Puccini been put in such good use in a film before.

I have seen many movies, in many different genres and this is in my top ten for sure! I cannot but smile thinking of this movie.

DVD Review: Awesome film!
Summary: 5 Stars

I remember watching this movie as a kid and loving it. Seeing it again as an adult brings back great memories...a great family film.

DVD Review: BREAKING AWAY FROM ROCKY
Summary: 5 Stars

The movie portrays a group of local Indiana childhood friends who seem content on staying together forever in their youth; no ambition, no goals until they are pitted against the priveleged "rich" college students attending IU. This is perhaps one of the best feel good sports movies ever made. It ranks up there with Hoosiers. It does have a borrowed interest from Rocky to an extent but it works. And you will probably guess how the movie ends but it still works because the real ending is not the race. Oh did I mention it is about cycling? This movie predates Lance Armstrong by a few decades. Who knows, perhaps it inspired him?

This is a movie that I watched with the entire family because we could. The entire family loved it. I give it 5 stars for this genre.

DVD Review: Local Kids Challange Local Fraternities in Cycling
Summary: 4 Stars

I saw this at the movie theater when it was issued as well as its and pieces of it on television over the years. My wife and I both loved it and we bought this DVD in order to be able to share it with our daughter and her family since our local Blockbuster does not carry it. Enjoy this classy family movie.

DVD Review: More then a bike movie
Summary: 4 Stars

Bought this for the bike footage, but it is much more and really about coming of age and making those first big choices in life. A fun movie with a positive message

Description of Breaking Away (Widescreen Edition)

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.

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

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