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This story of four working-class kids in a small industrial town--who go their separate ways after high school in the innocence of 1961 and come together again at the end of the turbulent Sixties--is as much about the coming of age of America as it is about the changes the characters go through. The four friends of the title are thoughtful Danilo, a Yugoslavian immigrant with dreams of being a writer and a scholar; Tom, good-looking and athletic, who is bound for the army; cautious David who has mixed feelings about staying in town and joining the family mortuary business; and lovely, ditzy, exasperating Georgia, who tries to inspire all of them with her longings for a life of Bohemian adventure. It is told through the eyes of Danilo, whose story is loosely based on the writer Tesichs own life growing up in Bloomington, Indiana.
Steve Tesich actually grew up in my hometown, East Chicago,Indiana, and it was hardly a small industrial town. At its apex, East Chicago had roughly 75,000 residents and, combined with the rest of the Calumet Region, was an integral part of the Chicago area. The Bloomington,Indiana connection came with Tesich attending Indiana University, also my alma mater. Thats where he got the inspiration for "Breaking Away."
Craig Wasson
Danilo
Jodi Thelen
Georgia
Michael Huddleston
David
Jim Metzler
Tom
Scott Hardt
Young Danilo
Elizabeth Lawrence
Mrs. Prozor
Miklos Simon
Mr. Prozor
Michael Kovacs
Prozor Neighbor
Beatrice Fredman
Mrs. Zoldos
Pier Calabria
Conductor
Zaid Farid
Rudy
David Graf
Gergley
Felix Shuman
Principal
George Womack
Mr. Bellknap
Todd Isaacson
Senior Kid
Sharon Kemp
Rudy's Girlfriend
Reed Birney
Louie
Harlan Hogan
Announcer
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