Movie · Comedy · Drama

This charming, Academy Award winner (1979, Screenplay) cycles high on comedy as four friends come to terms with life after high school. When top-notch cyclist Dave (Dennis Christopher) learns that the world's bicycling champions are always Italian, he attempts to turn himself into an Italian, driving his parents (Barbara Barrie, Paul Dooley) crazy. But everything changes after he meets the Italian racing team - an encounter that ultimately leads him and his friends to challenge the local college boys in the town's annual bike race.

1979 · 1h 40m
  • 95%
  • 12+
Director Peter Yates

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Breaking Away

Comedy

This charming, Academy Award winner (1979, Screenplay) cycles high on comedy as four friends come to terms with life after high school. When top-notch cyclist Dave (Dennis Christopher) learns that the world's bicycling champions are always Italian, he attempts to turn himself into an Italian, driving his parents (Barbara Barrie, Paul Dooley) crazy. But everything changes after he meets the Italian racing team - an encounter that ultimately leads him and his friends to challenge the local college boys in the town's annual bike race.

COMMON SENSE

Rousing bicycle-race tale has some profanity, mild violence.

TOMATOMETER
Average 8.3
Reviews 42
Fresh 40
Rotten 2

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Studio
20th Century Fox
Released
1979
Run Time
1 hr 40 min
Rated
PG
Content Advisories
Language, Suggestive Dialogue
Region of Origin
United States
© 1979 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All rights reserved.

Languages

Original Audio
English
Audio

English (United States) (AAC)

Subtitles

English (United States) (CC, SDH), Danish , Finnish , French (France) , German (Germany) , Hebrew , Italian (Italy) , Norwegian , Spanish (Latin America) , Swedish

Accessibility

Closed captions (CC) refer to subtitles in the available language with the addition of relevant non-dialogue information.