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Breaking Away (1979) Podcast Review — Why This Coming-of-Age Classic Still Matters
Breaking Away (1979) is more than a cycling movie—it’s one of the most honest American coming-of-age films of the 1970s. In this episode of The Cinematic Flashback Podcast, host Chuck Bryan and co-host Matt revisit Peter Yates’ Academy Award–winning sports drama and explore why its story of class, identity, and growing up still resonates decades later.
Set in Bloomington, Indiana, Breaking Away follows four working-class friends—known as “cutters”—as they struggle to define their futures in the shadow of…
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