Dennis Quaid is 70. So, he was 24 if Breaking Away was filmed in 1978. A 24-year-old playing the part of a 20-year-old -- not so bad by movie standards.
Another parallel: Breaking Away was released at the end of a decade of high inflation, which contributed to the rise of the Reagan Democrats who helped to defeat President Carter in 1980 -- similar to high prices left behind by inflation of 2021 and 2022 helping to take down Democrats yesterday. I remember Breaking Away as quite a good movie. Worth watching again, and not just to see if there are any references to inflation. I see Trump got his best-ever vote % in Indiana in line with rest of midwest and country.
It is a great movie! It’s a Bloomington tradition to point out to visitors where various scenes were filmed (the sorority house is just down the road from our house…). I don’t remember inflation, though the father in the movie making the transition from truly being a “cutter” to selling used cars, sitting with his son outside the library built with stones he worked on, these are all really great scenes.
I should be clear that I do not blame Biden, Harris or Fed Chair Powell for inflation. They just happened to be in charge when the world economy emerged from covid shutdowns.
Dennis Quaid is 70. So, he was 24 if Breaking Away was filmed in 1978. A 24-year-old playing the part of a 20-year-old -- not so bad by movie standards.
I'm sure you'll never be Mean Old Man Mike.
Dennis Quaid had a pretty good career.
He did. I think the movie was remarkably prescient in looking at the futures of young people in a de-industrialised Midwest
Another parallel: Breaking Away was released at the end of a decade of high inflation, which contributed to the rise of the Reagan Democrats who helped to defeat President Carter in 1980 -- similar to high prices left behind by inflation of 2021 and 2022 helping to take down Democrats yesterday. I remember Breaking Away as quite a good movie. Worth watching again, and not just to see if there are any references to inflation. I see Trump got his best-ever vote % in Indiana in line with rest of midwest and country.
It is a great movie! It’s a Bloomington tradition to point out to visitors where various scenes were filmed (the sorority house is just down the road from our house…). I don’t remember inflation, though the father in the movie making the transition from truly being a “cutter” to selling used cars, sitting with his son outside the library built with stones he worked on, these are all really great scenes.
I should be clear that I do not blame Biden, Harris or Fed Chair Powell for inflation. They just happened to be in charge when the world economy emerged from covid shutdowns.