Breaking Away

Breaking Away is an Oscar and Golden Globe award-winning film by Director Peter Yates (Bullitt) from 1979. The film stars Dennis Christopher, Dennis Quaid, Daniel Stern and Jackie Earle Haley.

The film follows a group of teenagers from the American College town of Bloomington (Indiana) who just have their high schooldiploma. Dave (played by Dennis Christopher) is fond of cycling and convinces his friends to as a team to participate in the Little 500, a wheel event for students who held each year in Bloomington.

Breaking Away was a box office success and was showered with awards, including an Oscar, a Golden Globe, a BAFTA and prices of the Writers Guild of America, Directors Guild of America, National Society of Film Critics, New York Film Critics Circle and London Critics Circle. In 1980 came there even a Breaking Away-TV series. The television series was nominated for two Emmy's, but disappeared after one season of the screen.

For his role in this film, it seemed that Dennis Christopher the great new star of Hollywood would be but after a starring role in Fade to Black (1980) he reached little more;the last 20 years he mainly plays guest roles in television series. Dennis Quaid on the other hand, was a movie star, with successes as The Right Stuff (1983), The Big Easy(1987), Dragonheart (1996), The Parent Trap (1998), The Day After Tomorrow (2004) and Great Balls of Fire! (1988), in which he played Jerry Lee Lewis .

Breaking Away is eighth on a list of the 100 most inspirational American movies, in 2006 compiled by the American Film Institute. ==Division Of Roles[ Edit] ==
 * Dennis Christopher as Dave Stoller
 * Dennis Quaid as Mike
 * Daniel Stern as Cyril
 * Jackie Earle Haley as Moocher "Mooch"
 * Paul Dooley as Raymond Stoller
 * Barbara Barrie as Evelyn Stoller
 * Robyn Douglass as Katherine
 * Hart Bochner as Rod
 * P.J. Soles as Suzy
 * Amy Wright as Nancy
 * John Ashton as Mikes brother