The university president (real-life then President Dr. Though Cyril wants no trouble, Mike insists on tracking down Rod and starting a brawl. When her boyfriend Rod finds out, he and some of his fraternity brothers beat Cyril up, mistaking him for Dave. One evening, he serenades "Caterina" outside her sorority house by singing Friedrich von Flotow's aria "M' Apparì Tutt' Amor", with Cyril providing guitar accompaniment. However, his mother Evelyn is more understanding and prepares Italian dishes for him.ĭave develops a crush on a university student named Katherine and masquerades as an Italian exchange student in order to romance her. His down-to-earth father Ray, a former stonecutter who now operates his own used car business (sometimes unethically), is puzzled and exasperated by his son's love of Italian music and culture, which Dave associates with cycling. )ĭave is obsessed with competitive bicycle racing, and Italian racers in particular, because he recently won a Masi bicycle. ![]() (The term "cutters" was invented for the movie, because the real name "stonies” was deemed unusable because of its perceived link to marijuana. They sometimes clash with the more affluent Indiana University students in their hometown, who habitually refer to them as "cutters", a derogatory term for locals related to the local Indiana limestone industry and the stonecutters who worked the quarries. They spend much of their time together swimming in an old, abandoned water-filled quarry. Now turning 19, they all graduated from high school the year before and are not sure what to do with their lives. The film was shot in and around Bloomington and on the university's campus.ĭave, Mike, Cyril, and Moocher are working-class friends living in the college town of Bloomington, Indiana. Tesich was an alumnus of Indiana University Bloomington. Īs the film's young lead, Christopher won the 1979 BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer and the 1979 Young Artist Award for Best Juvenile Actor, as well as getting a Golden Globe nomination as New Star of the Year. In that poll Breaking Away ranked as the eighth best film in the sports genre. In June 2008, the AFI also announced its 10 Top 10-the best ten films in ten classic American film genres-after polling over 1,500 people from the creative community. The film was ranked eighth on the List of America's 100 Most Inspiring Movies compiled by the American Film Institute (AFI) in 2006. It also won the 1979 Golden Globe Award for Best Film (Comedy or Musical) and received nominations in three other Golden Globe categories. The film stars Dennis Christopher, Dennis Quaid, Daniel Stern (in his film debut), Jackie Earle Haley, Barbara Barrie, Paul Dooley, and Robyn Douglass.īreaking Away won the 1979 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Tesich, and received nominations in four other categories, including Best Picture. ![]() It follows a group of four male teenagers in Bloomington, Indiana, who have recently graduated from high school. A full version, without any opening or closing credits, has appeared earlier on the Internet on sites like YouTube.Is a 1979 American coming of age comedy-drama film produced and directed by Peter Yates and written by Steve Tesich. ![]() Friends and I made several trips to Penn Station just to watch it!" (X)Ī rare and unique production, this short documentary has to date never been included as a special feature on any of the home video releases in its entirety, however, parts of it were featured in "The Human Adventure" documentary on the 2022 special updated BluRay release of The Director's Edition. ![]() Later Star Trek production staffer Doug Drexler recalled, " I remember that Paramount was running this in the lobby of Pennsylvania Station in NYC. The featurette was conceived as a promotional tool produced by the studio intended to be shown in public places in the time period leading up to the release of the movie in December 1979. Particularly noteworthy was the footage of the construction and destruction of D7-class breakaway models which was shot in the last quarter of 1978, while that particular scene was still slated to be featured in the movie, before it was re-imagined by Apogee, Inc. Remarkable were the segments that showed the model makers at Magicam working on the various studio models at their company, the fitting of prosthetics to create various alien makeup, and the shaving of Persis Khambatta's head for her role as Ilia. The featurette did not contain interviews but instead showcased behind-the-scenes footage of the production of Star Trek: The Motion Picture with an accompanying audio commentary. The Making of Star Trek: The Motion Picture was a ten-minute documentary produced by Paramount Pictures and directed by Annett Wolf in 1979. (written from a Production point of view)
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