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Breaking Away (1979)
Directed by Peter Yates
“The movie that tells you exactly what you can do with your high school diploma!”
Drama, Comedy · 1h 41m
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.
Cast
Dennis Christopher
Dennis Quaid
Daniel Stern
Jackie Earle Haley
Barbara Barrie
Paul Dooley
Robyn Douglass
Hart Bochner
Amy Wright
Peter Maloney
John Ashton
Crew
- Director
- Peter Yates
- Writer
- Steve Tesich
- Director of Photography
- Matthew F. Leonetti
- Original Music Composer
- Patrick Williams
- Editor
- Cynthia Scheider
- Producer
- Peter Yates
Details
- Release date
- 1979-05-24
- Runtime
- 1h 41m
- Genres
- Drama, Comedy
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English, Italian, French
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- 20th Century Fox
- Budget
- $2,300,000
- Box office
- $20,000,000