list http://www.spout.com/ Recent community activity around Breaking Away on Spout Copyright 2005-9 Spout, LLC Spout RSS http://www.spout.com/images/SpoutLogoRSS.jpg http://www.spout.com/ 136 30 http://www.spout.com/films/Breaking_Away/4374/default.aspx Title: Breaking Away
Year: 1979
Director: Peter Yates
Plot: 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 wants to be a champion bicycle racer and he idolizes the Italian racing team -- so much so that he speaks, thinks, and acts Italian, all to his father's (Paul Dooley) forlorn exasperation. Dave falls for a college girl (Robyn Douglass), but is ashamed to admit he is a cutter and poses as an Italian exchange student to impress her. Dave is particularly excited when his heroes -- the Italian racers -- come to town for a race. But they are even more snobbish than the college students and rely on dirty tricks to keep Dave from winning a race against them. After that ordeal, Dave throws away his false identity and convinces his friends to enter the university's "Little 500" bicycle race against the college students. This light-hearted and heartwarming tale was a surprising word-of-mouth success at the box-office and won several awards, including an Academy Award for "Best Screenplay." ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide
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]]>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 02:33:54 GMTBreaking Away1979Peter Yates<a href="/players/P____13052/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Dennis Christopher</a> stars as a recent high school graduate in Bloomington, Indiana, who is caught with his friends -- <a href="/players/P____58161/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Dennis Quaid</a>, <a href="/players/P___112705/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Daniel Stern</a>, <a href="/players/P____29701/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Jackie Earle Haley</a> -- 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. <a href="/players/P____13052/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Dennis Christopher</a>'s character Dave wants to be a champion bicycle racer and he idolizes the Italian racing team -- so much so that he speaks, thinks, and acts Italian, all to his father's (<a href="/players/P____19689/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Paul Dooley</a>) forlorn exasperation. Dave falls for a college girl (Robyn Douglass), but is ashamed to admit he is a cutter and poses as an Italian exchange student to impress her. Dave is particularly excited when his heroes -- the Italian racers -- come to town for a race. But they are even more snobbish than the college students and rely on dirty tricks to keep Dave from winning a race against them. After that ordeal, Dave throws away his false identity and convinces his friends to enter the university's "Little 500" bicycle race against the college students. This light-hearted and heartwarming tale was a surprising word-of-mouth success at the box-office and won several awards, including an Academy Award for "Best Screenplay." ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide13Tag Target (>10)2223http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/t16523rhtf1.jpghttp://www.spout.com/films/Breaking_Away/4374/default.aspxFilm http://www.spout.com/blogs/risselada/archive/2009/11/4/44295.aspx Post By: Risselada
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Post Date: 11/4/2009 1:53:54 PM
Body: I have asked certain users on Spout to recommend a movie to me. I will be blogging about these films as I watch them. This film was recommended to me by Tenenbaums. Breaking Away Tenenbaums has been a pretty active blogger on this site as well, so I was glad to get a recommendation from him. Breaking Away was not a film I had not really heard of before. Maybe I briefly noticed it once amongst a filmography list of director Peter Yates, but I did not realize at all that it featured Dennis Quaid and Daniel Stern in such young roles. Honestly, I didn't recognize either of the actors when they first showed up on screen. Stern looks like the perfect dork. I like that they cast such goofy looking kids instead of just trying to find the attractive ones (well apart from Quaid). Jackie Earle Haley is one of the strangest looking guys around. Check him out as an adult as a brilliant piece of casting in Watchmen. Unfortunately I found the dialogue really horrible, and the plot and pacing quite boring. The main character Dave's constant put on Italian dialect was not endearing to me. In fact it was quite grating. And Paul Dooley as his antagonistic dad was just as horrible to listen to. It was so boring and frustrating to hear them read this script as they went at it. The actual climax with the final bike race is the best part and has some wonderful moments. I can see why people would rank it up there as one of the greatest sports movie moments. But everything leading up to it was so long and boring that it wasn't enough for me to say I liked the movie. I do appreciate the recommendation though! Rating: 5/10
]]>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:53:54 GMTRisseladaRisselada Blog11/4/2009 1:53:54 PMI have asked certain users on Spout to recommend a movie to me. I will be blogging about these films as I watch them. This film was recommended to me by Tenenbaums. Breaking Away Tenenbaums has been a pretty active blogger on this site as well, so I was glad to get a recommendation from him. Breaking Away was not a film I had not really heard of before. Maybe I briefly noticed it once amongst a filmography list of director Peter Yates, but I did not realize at all that it featured Dennis Quaid and Daniel Stern in such young roles. Honestly, I didn't recognize either of the actors when they first showed up on screen. Stern looks like the perfect dork. I like that they cast such goofy looking kids instead of just trying to find the attractive ones (well apart from Quaid). Jackie Earle Haley is one of the strangest looking guys around. Check him out as an adult as a brilliant piece of casting in Watchmen. Unfortunately I found the dialogue really horrible, and the plot and pacing quite boring. The main character Dave's constant put on Italian dialect was not endearing to me. In fact it was quite grating. And Paul Dooley as his antagonistic dad was just as horrible to listen to. It was so boring and frustrating to hear them read this script as they went at it. The actual climax with the final bike race is the best part and has some wonderful moments. I can see why people would rank it up there as one of the greatest sports movie moments. But everything leading up to it was so long and boring that it wasn't enough for me to say I liked the movie. I do appreciate the recommendation though! Rating: 5/10 http://www.spout.com/blogs/shaunhuston/archive/2008/6/19/31401.aspx Post By: ShaunHuston
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Post Date: 6/19/2008 1:01:19 AM
Body: The sports Top 10 is a difficult list to assess. How many truly good sports movies are there, and I ask this as a sports fan? Raging Bull (1980) is arguably the greatest film of the 1980s, and Rocky (1976) was a little labor of love, far from the semi-joke blockbuster that it is often remembered as in light of its sequels. They likely deserve their places at the top of the list, especially Raging Bull. As to the rest of the films, I have a lot of affection for Breaking Away (1979) and really, it's a lovely little film that I'd put higher on the list. I also like Hoosiers (1986) and Bull Durham (1988), but they both have obvious flaws (as Anne-Marie noted, the basketball film falls short in its depiction of the on-the-court action; the final is especially poorly paced and shot and edited in an oblique way. I've always thought that Bull Durham's final act stretched on a little too long, needlessly deferring Annie and Crash's final settling in together). For the remainder, well, I don't have much good or much bad to say about any of them; I can see why each ended up on the list, with the possible exception of Jerry Maguire (1996), which seems a stretch as a sports film even by the AFI's definition (“a genre of films with protagonists who play athletics or other games of competition” - I don't see how either of the leads meet this standard). However, I would struggle to find a replacement. Tin Cup (1996)? Cross-apply Field of Dreams (1989) from the fantasy list? How about Downhill Racer (1969) or Slap Shot (1977)? (And I'll just admit right now that I have nothing to say about football films as I don't care or know much about the game). I dunno. I think that this genre is doubly cursed for being both a genre and about sports, two aspects of American life that are seen as culturally “lesser” in many circles. So, as a result, you get films that are either goofy comedies or fairly predictable dramas. The best films on the AFI Top 10 do better than that, but only Raging Bull, I think, can be considered great cinema. Link to introduction. Originally posted on:Short-Circuit Signs
]]>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 05:01:19 GMTShaunHustonShaunHuston filmblog6/19/2008 1:01:19 AMThe sports Top 10 is a difficult list to assess. How many truly good sports movies are there, and I ask this as a sports fan? Raging Bull (1980) is arguably the greatest film of the 1980s, and Rocky (1976) was a little labor of love, far from the semi-joke blockbuster that it is often remembered as in light of its sequels. They likely deserve their places at the top of the list, especially Raging Bull. As to the rest of the films, I have a lot of affection for Breaking Away (1979) and really, it's a lovely little film that I'd put higher on the list. I also like Hoosiers (1986) and Bull Durham (1988), but they both have obvious flaws (as Anne-Marie noted, the basketball film falls short in its depiction of the on-the-court action; the final is especially poorly paced and shot and edited in an oblique way. I've always thought that Bull Durham's final act stretched on a little too long, needlessly deferring Annie and Crash's final settling in together). For the remainder, well, I don't have much good or much bad to say about any of them; I can see why each ended up on the list, with the possible exception of Jerry Maguire (1996), which seems a stretch as a sports film even by the AFI's definition (“a genre of films with protagonists who play athletics or other games of competition” - I don't see how either of the leads meet this standard). However, I would struggle to find a replacement. Tin Cup (1996)? Cross-apply Field of Dreams (1989) from the fantasy list? How about Downhill Racer (1969) or Slap Shot (1977)? (And I'll just admit right now that I have nothing to say about football films as I don't care or know much about the game). I dunno. I think that this genre is doubly cursed for being both a genre and about sports, two aspects of American life that are seen as culturally “lesser” in many circles. So, as a result, you get films that are either goofy comedies or fairly predictable dramas. The best films on the AFI Top 10 do better than that, but only Raging Bull, I think, can be considered great cinema. Link to introduction. Originally posted on:Short-Circuit Signs http://www.spout.com/blogs/lopezdash/archive/2008/3/11/26091.aspx Post By: lopezdash
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Post Date: 3/11/2008 2:54:16 PM
Body: 1. Manhattan: A Woody Allen classic all too often overshadowed by Annie Hall. The story is pretty much the same as most of Allen's films. He plays a lusty, bumbling New Yorker seeking love wherever he can find it�a search which lands him with a high schooler and later his best friend's mistress. With Meryl Streep and Diane Keaton. 2. Small Time Crooks: One of the few recent Woody Allen films worth seeing. The story follows one cookie manufacturer from near failure and foreclosure to fortune and fraud: delightful! 3. Coming to America: Eddie Murphy at his best! Murphy as an African prince arrives in Queens to find a wife and goes undercover as an employee at fast-food restaurant. 4. Trading Places: Eddie Murphy was so funny once, what happened? Oh, right. Enter: Norbit. Here, Dan Aykroyd and Murphy team up to get back at Aykroyd's boss and stick it to The Man. 5. Blues Brothers: Another fine moment for Dan Aykroyd. Aykroyd and Jon Belushi, in this musical-comedy quest, come together as Midwestern crooks and reunite their blues band in order to raise the money to save the orphanage where they grew up. 6. Raising Arizona: An earlier Coen Brothers classic. Nicolas Cage and Holly Hunter steal a baby. Enough said. 7. Father of the Bride: Steve Martin charmingly grapples with the parental and financial anxieties of seeing his first-born daughter married. With Martin Short as a ambiguously European wedding planner. 8. The Mask: A Jim Carrey and Cameron Diaz tour de force in which Carrey finds a mysterious mask that transforms him from a lonely goof to a smoking, green-faced stud. And Cameron Diaz looks really hot. 9. Breaking Away: A young and muscular Dennis Quaid fights to win a cycling competition and break free from his small-town digs. 10. The Sting: An indispensable Paul Newman and Robert Redford comedy and crime thriller. Set in the 1930s, Newman and Redford play charming crooks who rustle together a masterful get-rich quick scheme.Source: Bwog
]]>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:54:16 GMTlopezdashThe Movie Blog3/11/2008 2:54:16 PM1. Manhattan: A Woody Allen classic all too often overshadowed by Annie Hall. The story is pretty much the same as most of Allen&#39;s films. He plays a lusty, bumbling New Yorker seeking love wherever he can find it&iuml;&iquest;&frac12;a search which lands him with a high schooler and later his best friend&#39;s mistress. With Meryl Streep and Diane Keaton. 2. Small Time Crooks: One of the few recent Woody Allen films worth seeing. The story follows one cookie manufacturer from near failure and foreclosure to fortune and fraud: delightful! 3. Coming to America: Eddie Murphy at his best! Murphy as an African prince arrives in Queens to find a wife and goes undercover as an employee at fast-food restaurant. 4. Trading Places: Eddie Murphy was so funny once, what happened? Oh, right. Enter: Norbit. Here, Dan Aykroyd and Murphy team up to get back at Aykroyd&#39;s boss and stick it to The Man. 5. Blues Brothers: Another fine moment for Dan Aykroyd. Aykroyd and Jon Belushi, in this musical-comedy quest, come together as Midwestern crooks and reunite their blues band in order to raise the money to save the orphanage where they grew up. 6. Raising Arizona: An earlier Coen Brothers classic. Nicolas Cage and Holly Hunter steal a baby. Enough said. 7. Father of the Bride: Steve Martin charmingly grapples with the parental and financial anxieties of seeing his first-born daughter married. With Martin Short as a ambiguously European wedding planner. 8. The Mask: A Jim Carrey and Cameron Diaz tour de force in which Carrey finds a mysterious mask that transforms him from a lonely goof to a smoking, green-faced stud. And Cameron Diaz looks really hot. 9. Breaking Away: A young and muscular Dennis Quaid fights to win a cycling competition and break free from his small-town digs. 10. The Sting: An indispensable Paul Newman and Robert Redford comedy and crime thriller. Set in the 1930s, Newman and Redford play charming crooks who rustle together a masterful get-rich quick scheme.Source: Bwog http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/comedy/MemberTagFilms.aspxcomedy
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