Breaking Away

1979 • 1h 41m •

Drama Comedy

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★ 7.2/10

307 reviews

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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.

"The movie that tells you exactly what you can do with your high school diploma!"

Top Billed Cast

Dennis Christopher

Dave Stoller

Dennis Quaid

Mike

Daniel Stern

Cyril

Jackie Earle Haley

Moocher

Barbara Barrie

Evelyn Stoller

Paul Dooley

Ray Stoller

Robyn Douglass

Katherine

Hart Bochner

Rod

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W Wuchak Verified TMDB Critic

2024-11-18

**_Hanging out at the local quarry the year after high school and much more_**

The son of a working class family in Bloomington (Christopher Dennis) is obsessed with Italy and bicycling as he hangs with his three “cutter” buds (Dennis Quaid, Jackie Earle Haley and Daniel Stern). He deals with his amusing parents (Paul Dooley and Barbara Barrie) while chasing a college lass (Robyn Douglass). Everything leads to the Little 500 bicyclist race at Indiana University.

“Breaking Away” (1979) wisely focuses on the characters rather than bicycling and is comparable to “Dead Poets Socie...