Breaking Away (Widescreen Edition)
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• DVD-Video
• Subtitled
• Widescreen
• NTSC
In Theaters : 20 July, 1979
DVD Release : 29 January, 2002 |
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Breaking Away (Widescreen Edition) Customer Reviews
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A great American movie set in a real, mythological American place
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One of my favorite movies - so different from 99% of Hollywood movies that I am ashamed that my country produces and supports.
This movie is set in a specific place - Bloomington Indiana and the movie does an excellent job of taking us in to the real culture of real people - real Americans and we like these people, we relate to their fears and their dreams.
The hero Dave Stoehler is a romantic dreamer, but his dreams are just an extension of himself and his family. He is stretching things a bit to present himself as a great Italian bicycle racer from a proud, large Italian family. But the reality is that he is great Bicycle racer and his family is a great proud American family, who play Italian opera love songs and it really isn't an act. These are great people and if the cheating, Italian professional bicycle team visiting Bloomington IN didn't see it, everyone else eventually does see it.
The used car salesman father, ex-cutter character is fantastic. And the town of Bloomington IN comes off as a great place - even if there are some mean, spoiled rich IU students there , and even they eventually see some light.
God bless all those who worked to create this gem.
God bless America.
Let's hope we get a few more of these types of movies, maybe once every 20 years. |
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