# Breaking Away (1979)

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**Runtime**: 101 min
**Genres**: Drama, Comedy
**Directed by**: Peter Yates
**Written by**: Steve Tesich
**Starring**: Dennis Christopher, Dennis Quaid, Daniel Stern, Jackie Earle Haley, Barbara Barrie, Paul Dooley

> *The movie that tells you exactly what you can do with your high school diploma!*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Here comes a film about youthful angst, with bicycles. Dave and friends navigate post-grad life. It manages to pedal its way into the viewer's heart somehow.

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