Pros: The acting, the realism, the dream. Cons: A bit predictable at the end.
Plot: Dave Stohler (Dennis Christopher) has just finished high school, along with his three friends, athletic Mike (Dennis Quaid), comical and insightful Cyril (Daniel Stern), and small-of-stature scrapper Moocher (Jackie Earle Haley). What do ...
Pros: bike racing, feel good movie Cons: a smidgen of sappiness
Summary:
Not only some of the most exciting bicycle racing scenes ever filmed, but also a stirring and sometimes heartbreaking account of a time of decision in four young men's lives.
Where I give away stuff about the movie, I allude to...
Pros: Cast, script, direction, score Cons: I'll never find one
Four friends have spent their lives sharing adventures, and acting as if they were as close as the Three Musketeers. Almost every thing they do, though, shows these teens going in four different directions. The changes started to happen when one of them ...
Pros: Inspirational and entertaining on several levels Cons: Some aspects of the final race stretch credulity.
More realistic than most 'coming of age' movies, this film shows a boy from a small college town and 3 of his friends taking the first steps into adulthood. Few people experience a magical epiphany and suddenly become adults, as many films would have you...
Pros: The characters, Paul Dooley, it has a great inspiring story. Cons: None that I could see, the perfect low budget film.
“Sports Illustrated” recently released a list of the top 20 Sports Films of All Time. Inexplicably, “Bull Durham” ranked number one. I never felt that “Bull Durham” was necessarily a sports film as much as it was yet another example of why we should hate...
Pros: Excellent writing. Good performances from future stars. Cons: Slower paced film that may not capture everyone's interest.
Why do I say that, you may ask? Well, the real story of Good Will Hunting is about an exceptional person who is trapped in the life of a loser, and it takes a special relationship with an older person to help the child take a step toward manhood. ...
Pros: The film was filmed on location and shows the historic beauty of Indiana. Cons: The films only con is that it is extremely under rated despite Academy Awards for best supporting actor and screenplay.
No film better portrays the transitional period from High School graduation to the onslaught of life thereafter. Modern coming of age films tend to dwell on the popular and the beautiful, often dismissing the ordinary yet fascinating lives of common...
Pros: One of the rare movies that you'd want to see over and over Cons: none
The movie is set in the idyllic Big 10 college town of Bloomington, Indiana. However, the story centers not on Indiana University students but on four local teenage sons of former rock cutters in the nearby quarries. Dave, Mike, Moocher, and Cyril must...
Pros: excellent script, fine directing, down-to-earth acting Cons: none
You usually have to go through ten or so mediocre films before you find a great film. If you are on number 6 or so, let me recommend seeing "Breaking Away" to break up the tedium sooner.
"Breaking Away" was a sleeper, a low-budget film with an (then) unfamiliar cast that was released to critical and commercial success. The film has many themes and subplots, but they never get tangled or complex. Some of the drama (especially in...
Pros: Dennis Quaid in an early - very early - role Cons: Contrived ending, actor playing Moocher looks too much like Dennis Quaid
Very rarely does one find a low-budget movie breaking into the mainstream. In this sense, BREAKING AWAY does indeed break away from the pack. It is obviously very low-budget, having been filmed largely in one area.
Dave Stoller, a Bloomington, Indiana guy with an obsession for bicycle racing, competes with his small-time buddies against the college snobs in annua...More at HotMovieSale.com
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