Breaking Away is terrific coming-of-age story for family to watch & I strongly recommend 👍🌟🌟🌟🌟

Ebert’s review of Breaking Away is spot on. It uses cycling as a metaphor for growing into adulthood and breaking away from others’ expectations. The best scene isn’t the climax. It’s the quiet walk he has with his Dad where they are both completely honest with each other about who they are and who the can be.

I've watched Breaking Away 2-3 times a year the last 40 years. Just a perfect movie.

Breaking Away was the 1st I ever Saw an Audience get up and Applaud. My Father and Me And my Aunt went to see Alien at the Brentwood Theatre and it was sold out. Went to East Islip theatre and saw Breaking Away. Still in my top 10

Two of my all time favorite movies. Breaking Away. My husband graduated from IU and then The Frisco Kid was my husband and my favorite movie. My husband passed away and seeing these two movies reviewed together just makes me want to cry. Wonderful memories. I kept up with the Frisco Kid. Both main characters were so believable! I love the movie even now!

Breaking Away is my all time favorite film. I saw it in the theater in 1979 and have watched it many times since, I never get tired of it. It’s worth noting the sub theme of the decline of the American middle class which was already well underway but not widely recognized in the late 70s. The four friends all had fathers who had provided a decent living for their families by taking jobs cutting limestone in the local quarries out of high school, a life that had already begun to disappear for them, and certainly was not available to their sons.

I remember seeing this episode and went to see Breaking Away . It’s been a favorite ever since .

"Breaking Away" is a sweet little masterpiece. It's one of my favorite movies from the 70s. Everything S & E said about it was spot on. I wish they had alluded to Dave's fascination with Italian bike racers as a manifestation of desire to be anything but a blond young cutter's son from Indiana. These dreams of the future, between escape and acceptance, were a big theme in the film.

Breaking Away is my favorite movie of all time.

They really got it wrong on "The Frisco Kid." It is something of a cult classic, a funny, moving, and exhilarating film with a brilliant performance by Gene Wilder at its heart.

Man how I miss these guys.

Saw Just You and Me Kid when I was a kid in the theater. I laughed all the way through the scene they showed here and I enjoy watching the film. It's worth it because of George Burns. He's a delight. Also Breaking Away is such a great film.

I like The Frisco Kid. It was a seriocomedy.

Oh God, the genesis of the Breaking Away obsession...

Great film Breaking Away is.

I love Breaking Away! Was paid 60 dollars and free lunch just to sit in their pits at the old track next to the library! Of course I live in Bloomington!,

I really liked just you and me kid. No cell phones, simple storytelling with George Burns and Brook Shields. It was just nice.

Breaking Away, always has been, always will be in my top 5... Cyril looking for someone to hug at the end of the race... not a word is spoken, thats acting... everyone's great in this movie but the comic relief Daniel Stern & Paul Dooley bring is irreplaceable

Everybody loves the universal theme of the underdog coming-of-age story, and Breaking Away smartly delivers this, and more. The realistic portrayal of middle America characters was done with humor and intelligence, without insulting the people they were portraying nor the audience. The brilliant juxtaposition of classical pieces such as Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville-Overture” with the biking scenes perfectly highlighted the emotional euphoric tension of the scenes. Before Fatal Attraction, before Silence of the Lamb, how many moviegoers unexpectedly became classical music fans as a result of Breaking Away? Despite the rest of the duds S&E reviewed in this segment, the 1970s produced some of the best American movies of our time. We need more of these type of films today.

My favorite line from ‘Breaking Away’, “You act like you lost your wallet.”

Just you and me kid is one of my favorites from the 70's. I remember watching it as a kid, and lately I have found back to it again. I think it is just light years better than the crap they make these days. It is sweet and endearing!

It's funny when both agree that "models can't act", obviously referring to Brooke Shields. Yet, the previous year, both Siskel and Ebert gave great praise to Brooke Shield's performance in Pretty Baby. LOL

When the four guys are talking on the porch in Breaking Away, you can see the boom mic

The funny thing is in other reviews I've watched they loved The Frisco Kid. Frisco Frisco Kid is a fantastic movie with lots of heart and amazing acting. It's a fish out of water but the twist is the fish is going from one giant pond to becoming a leader in a much smaller pond. And the person that's helping them is the most unlikely of people.

I loved Breaking Away also. Just a good all around film that you watch and really understand how A simple promise can make a great movie.

It's funny there was as time when you had to say "Harrison Ford, remember him?"

These guys were great at non angry negative reviews of films by people who should have known better.

I think Susan Anton was first runner-up in the Miss USA pageant years ago.

I find the bad movies of the 70s more interesting than just about anything being put out now. If you need a George Burns fix oh God should do the trick

3:23...There's a career in ruins, wow!

Goldengirl is one word.

If you like Breaking away check out Fandango and American Flyers.

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I loved both of the films these two disliked. The Frisco Kid is a great movie that was both touching and funny. The Villain is a lark with one of the funniest lines about naming, parentage, and bastardy ever. Handsome Stranger: "I was named after my father."

Brooke Shields was 14 in real life when this movie here came out. No idea how old she was when it was filmed. Can you imagine the outcry now if two middle aged men described a 14 year old, male or female, as a terrible actor who is merely made attractive to look at? I liked S&E but this is gross. Anyway, I've always felt when kids act it's up to the director to get a good performance out of them. If the kid does well, give the director the credit where it's due. It the kid is terrible, again, that's the director's fault. Notice how S&E didn't even mention who the director was. Edited because I had to look up the director and the movie mentioned here was his first real (non-tv) movie. He only did one other after it. But I also saw a review that mentioned Brooke had to at least appear naked a lot in the move? It just gets worse!

I wish they would have continued with the Dog of The Week segment, or something similar, on their subsequent review shows. God knows there is never a shortage of lousy movies.

Hal Needham made the most insignificant movies of the late 70's and early 80's, but he was a stunt man/ coordinator. That period in movies was not the peak in Hollyweird and there would be a decline in quality and character.

Siskel said he would give a money back guarantee for those who didn't like Breaking Away? I definitely didnt dislike that film but I didnt think it was all that great. It had some good performances but I felt the story was just way too slow, although it was fun to see young Dennis Quaid and a very young pre- Home Alone and City Slickers Daniel Stern early in their careers.