Breaking Away

Breaking Away is a 1979 American coming of age comedydrama film produced and directed by Peter Yates and written by Steve Tesich. It follows a group of four male teenagers in Bloomington, Indiana, who have recently graduated from high school. The film stars Dennis Christopher, Dennis Quaid, Daniel Stern, Jackie Earle Haley, Barbara Barrie, Paul Dooley and Robyn Douglass.

Tesich was an alumnus of Indiana University Bloomington. The film was shot in and around Bloomington and on the universitys campus.Dave, Mike, Cyril, and Moocher are four workingclass friends, living in the college town of Bloomington, Indiana. Now turningyears old, they all graduated from high school the year before and are not sure what to do with their lives. They spend much of their time together swimming in an old abandoned waterfilled quarry, but also often clash with the more affluent Indiana University students in their hometown, who habitually refer to them as cutters, a derogatory term for locals stemming from the local Indiana Limestone industry and the stonecutters who worked the quarries. Dave is obsessed with competitive bicycle racing, and Italian racers in particular, because he recently won a Masi bicycle. His downtoearth father, a former stonecutter who now operates his own used car business sometimes unethically, is puzzled and exasperated by his sons love of Italian music and culture, which Dave associates with cycling. However, his mother Evelyn is more understanding. ........

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