Breaking Away DVD... While travelling across the Pacific on a Pan Am 747 several times, I was fortunate enough to be put in a position of watching the Only In Flight Movie Available at the time for that Aircraft. In Both Directions I Had little choice but to watch the Only Movie They had to play, and Play again, Lucky it turned out to be the Freshly Released "Breaking Away", Sure there are some emotionally frustrating moments in the film, but any good movie's gonna have those. Breaking Away was a Refreshing Change from the Standard Action Nonsense Movie that has and still does flood the entertainment field. Breaking Away had a Story, a real Story, and Acted out by competent Actors that you could identify with, I Loved Breaking Away every time I Watched it, and every Time I View the Breaking Away DVD. "Peter Yates's flag-waving film stands with To Kill a Mockingbird and American Graffiti as one of the best films about small-town Americana. Steve Tesich won an Oscar for his semi-biographical screenplay about four 19-year-olds who don't know what to do after high school. Dave Stohler (Dennis Christopher) and his three friends--ex-football star Mike (Dennis Quaid), wily comedian Cyril (Daniel Stern), and tough kid Moocher (Jackie Earle Haley)--are doomed to live in the college town of Bloomington, Indiana, where the local kids (nicknamed "Cutters"--a derogatory reference to quarry workers and their blue-collar families) are looked down on by the uppity students of nearby Indiana University. Stohler escapes into a world of Italian bicycling, picking up the lingo, the accent, and a good share of the talent of his heroes. He is also the scourge of his father's life. The used-car salesman (Paul Dooley) doesn't understand his son's affection for bicycling or, for that matter, his pride in being a "Cutter." The Turmoil that follows the family of the Cutter with the Cutter Son being a little eccentric in his Hero Worship of the Italian Bicycle racing team, seems a little slapstick in places but poignant to the Story. If You Haven't seen Breaking Away, Do watch This magnificent and Memorable piece...