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Breaking Away
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John Ashton
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What’s Aged the Best?
College towns; Indiana sports; cycling movies; Rod; Robyn Douglass; Mercedes; Amy Wright; John Ashton; Barbara Barrie; P.J. Soles; Cutters nickname
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- College towns remain excellent film settings, with townie-student tension and familiar streets, bars and pizza places.
- Indiana sports in 1979 hold up especially well, coinciding with Larry Bird’s college season.
- Cycling movies are more cinematic than running movies because crashes and interference create additional possibilities.
- Rod’s pink polo, blue convertible, swimming and handsome college-villain persona remain excellent, as does Bochner’s later Die Hard connection.
- Robyn Douglass is praised among a crowded field of seventies stars and for The Lonely Guy.
- Rod’s blue Mercedes and the reverse-driving shot are admired, alongside simpler seventies downtown streets.
- Amy Wright’s run through The Deer Hunter, The Amityville Horror, Breaking Away and Inside Moves demonstrates her character-actor strengths.
- John Ashton as Mike’s brother efficiently conveys their relationship when threatening to take the car away.
- Barbara Barrie is an outstanding screen mother with her own sexual life and a moving passport scene.
- P.J. Soles’s busy six-year run and appeal are praised, alongside the reported marriage to Quaid and lost Princess Leia role.
- Changing the local nickname from Stoners or Stonies to Cutters avoids drug confusion and produces a memorable name.
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