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Breaking Away

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Breaking Away
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PG,1hr 40min
Genre:
Comedy
Release:
1979
Director:
Peter Yates
Distributor:
20th Century Fox
Starring:
Dennis Christopher, Dennis Quaid, Daniel Stern  ...more
Synopsis: Dennis Christopher stars as a recent high school graduate in Bloomington, Indiana, who is caught with his friends -- Dennis Quaid, Daniel Stern, Jackie Earle Haley -- coasting between high school and deciding what to do with the rest of their lives. The four friends are snobbishly looked down upon by the college students of the town as "cutters," since they were born in Bloomington and their parents worked in the local limestone quarries that built the university. Dennis Christopher's character Dave ... Full Synopsis
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Dan Jardine, AMG Review
A Midwest American college town in the 1970s is the setting for this coming-of-age tale about four working-class teens who are trying to escape their parents' working class fates. Class consciousness and conflicts abound, as local college kids refer disparagingly to the protagonists as "Cutters." The blue-collar stone-cutters literally built the homes the rich kids live in and the college that these ... Full Review
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Dennis Christopher
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Daniel Stern
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