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Breaking Away (1979): Scores Across IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB

Breaking Away is a 1979 drama, comedy film directed by Peter Yates. It scores 7.7 on IMDb, 95% on Rotten Tomatoes, 91 on Metacritic, 7.2 on TMDB. Audiences and critics disagree: scaled to 100, IMDb users give it 77 while Metacritic critics give it 91, a gap of 14 points in favor of critics. Ranked by confidence-weighted IMDb score, it is number 11 of 85 films from 1979 in our catalog and number 259 of 3,051 comedy films.

Billed cast: Dennis Christopher, Dennis Quaid, Daniel Stern, Jackie Earle Haley, Barbara Barrie, Paul Dooley.

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