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List Price: $9.98 Our Price: $7.99 You Save: $1.99 Features • Closed-captioned • Color • DVD-Video • Subtitled • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 1979 DVD Release : 29 January, 2002 |
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Breaking Away description 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 ... review details |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | 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 best original screenplay. As others have said, Paul Dooley should have received an award for best supporting actor but was not even nominated. Be that all as it may, this film will outlive so many of the others that won awards ... I'm watching it on one of the movie channels at the moment and am going to order the DVD immediately. It should be in everyone's collection, at least in the film libraries of those who are nostalgic about America's sort of small towns and anyone else who enjoys a well-written, well-acted, well-directed movie. I'm also buying one also for each of my sons, now in their late 30s and early 40s. I have friends with children who have difficulty finding an enjoyable movie that the whole family can watch together. Aside from its merits as a film, there is another reason for recommending Breaking Away ... it has zero of the elements that parents find objectionable. There will come a time when this will be regarded as a "period" film and this movie will survive the test of time, as it has done for approximately 27 years already. It is so rare for a movie to feel so real and I'm glad to read some reviews by people who have lived and and gone to school in Bloomington. |
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