Breaking Away (1979)

[RobbO]

Posted: 9/5/06 at 10:35am

great movie. i rediscovered this classic that i saw many, many times as kid when it was being offered for free in a promotion on the back of a cereal box.

i love barbara barrie and paul dooley in this movie!



trailer for breaking away

Updated On: 9/5/06 at 10:35 AM

[best12bars]

Posted: 9/5/06 at 10:45am

Love this movie!

I used to see Dennis Christopher from time to time at Academy screenings.

ditto about Dooley and Barrie. Terrific performances.

Oh, and Hart Bochner? Yowza!!!

[RobbO]

Posted: 9/5/06 at 10:50am

wow, i did not even remember that hart was in this movie. i do not think i discovered him until the mini-series, "war and remembrance" much later.

[best12bars]

Posted: 9/5/06 at 10:52am

Yeah, he plays "jerk frat boy" real well in Breaking Away.

[RobbO]

Posted: 9/5/06 at 10:55am

i cannot believe that dennis christopher has had as long of a career as he has. i usually recognize/remember actors pretty well but i had no idea that he was the actor i saw in several productions - most notably "it" on television.

[jimnysf]

Posted: 9/5/06 at 11:27am

I love this movie! I also loved the TV series but, of course, it did not last. It also starred Barbara Barrie and Jackie Earle Haley as well as a very good Sean Cassidy in the Dennis Christopher role. Vincent Gardenia played the father.

[YouWantitWhen????]

Posted: 9/5/06 at 11:33am

Loved this movie as well.

We had it at the Movie theater I worked at when I was a kid - and we would watch it over and over again...

Hart Bochner was such a beautiful looking jerk! So pretty to look at. And a very young Dennis Quaid - sigh.

[xxnewgirlxx]

Posted: 9/5/06 at 12:10pm

I love this movie. One of my favorite "coming of age" stories.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 9/5/06 at 12:17pm

I think this movie spawned a couple of trends.

I believe it was this movie that started non-Italian people going around saying: "Ciao".

It also got people interested again in the world of bicycles. Hence the fanny pack trend was born.

[RobbO]

Posted: 9/5/06 at 2:12pm

please do not blame the fanny pack on

break
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away.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 9/5/06 at 2:32pm

Who wants to start a Paul Dooley fan club?

[RobbO]

Posted: 9/5/06 at 2:33pm

i'm in.

[jimnysf]

Posted: 9/5/06 at 2:36pm

Doesn't anyone else remember the TV series? I know it was low rated but I can't be the only one who watched it. Can I?

(There was also a TV version of "The Paper Chase" that didn't last too long. Longer than "Breaking Away", though).

[DayDreamer]

Posted: 9/5/06 at 2:38pm

I watched both the Breaking Away and Paper Chase tv shows.

And also "The White Shadow". They all seemed to play at the same time...

[RobbO]

Posted: 9/5/06 at 2:40pm

i don't think i was able to stay up that late.

[jimnysf]

Posted: 9/5/06 at 2:44pm

Sometimes I long for the days when movies were turned into TV series instead of Broadway musicals.

20th Century Fox had:
M*A*S*H
Breaking Away
The Paper Chase
Anna and The King (with Yul Brynner). The pilot for that show will be on the new 2 disk "King and I" DVD.

[best12bars]

Posted: 9/5/06 at 3:26pm

I love Paul Dooley and his alien "probed" monologue in Waiting For Guffman.

[Jon]

Posted: 9/5/06 at 3:36pm

The Paper Chase series actually lasted three seasons - but not on regular TV. It went to PBS, then to Showtime (cable). The second season ended with graduation of the original students, and Season Three was "The New Class".

[RobbO]

Posted: 9/5/06 at 3:38pm

kinda like "saved by the bell" ?

[jimnysf]

Posted: 9/5/06 at 3:40pm

"i don't think i was able to stay up that late"

I think they came on at 8 pm but since I was just a kid myself back then, it's hard to remember.

[RobbO]

Posted: 9/5/06 at 3:43pm

i think my bedtime in 1980 was probably 7:30, so that explains it.


edit: according to the website below, it was on saturday at 8 p.m. that explains it, i must have been at gymboree or something.
jump the shark

Updated On: 9/5/06 at 03:43 PM

[jimnysf]

Posted: 9/5/06 at 5:23pm

I must have been a little older. I don't think I ever had a gymboree.

[jimnysf]

Posted: 9/5/06 at 5:28pm

When I was a wee one, I used to go to bed when Claude and Clownie of "Terrytoon Circus" said, "And now boys and girls, its time for most of you to go to bed." Clownie always gave me nightmares so I did what he told me to do.

[RobbO]

Posted: 9/5/06 at 6:10pm

umm, yeah, you're definitely older.

[jimnysf]

Posted: 9/5/06 at 6:12pm

I was probably at the disco when you were at Gymboree but I won't hold your tender age against you.