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Breaking Away
The movie that tells you exactly what you can do with your high school diploma!
The movie that tells you exactly what you can do with your high schoo...
Comedy, Drama - 1979
Breaking Away
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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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Details

Runtime:
101 min
Release date:
24 May 1979
Country:
US
Languages:
English, Italian, French
Budget:
$2,300,000
Revenue:
$20,000,000
Awards:
Won 1 Oscar. 11 wins & 14 nominations total

Top Critics Reviews

fresh:
There are a few moments when the picture's easygoing pace turns into wobbliness, but these are insignificant compared with its many moments of shrewd insight into the lives of amusingly shaded but very recognizable human beings.
– Richard Schickel,
TIME Magazine,
3 Aug 2008
fresh:
Peter Yates, previously typed as an action director, lends the film a fine, unexpected limpidity, and the principals are mostly excellent.
– Dave Kehr,
Chicago Reader,
21 Mar 2007
fresh:
Breaking Away is a wonderfully sunny, funny, goofy, intelligent movie that makes you feel about as good as any movie in a long time. It is, in fact, a treasure.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
23 Oct 2004
fresh:
Here is a movie so fresh and funny it didn't even need a big budget or a pedigree.
– Janet Maslin,
New York Times,
20 May 2003
fresh:
Though its plot wins no points for originality, Breaking Away is a thoroughly delightful light comedy.
– ,
Variety,
21 Mar 2007
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