Breaking Away factoids!!!
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bentstrider at 10.27.08 - 1:26 am
# Dave's bike was a 1978 Masi Gran Criterium.As of the Little 500 in 2005, the "Cutters" have had a team every year since this movie was made. However, the original "Cutters" team, created after the movie's release, never included locals. Race guidelines dictate that all racers must attend the University.
# The "Cutters" team won the race in 2004, the 25th anniversary of the film in a much similar fashion to the ending of the film by beating out the "ATO" team (but the team was made up of non-Greek students, two of which were Bloomington locals who were attending Indiana University).
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# In the scene where Dave admits to Catherine that he is not Italian but is actually a "Cutter" (one of the local residents), Catherine starts to walk off, then turns back and slaps him across the face. According to director Peter Yates, she did not 'fake' the slap but actually did strike him, and fairly hardly at that.
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# The production team decided to call the Bloomington townies "cutters" because they felt the actual local nickname ("stoners" or "stonies") would draw a parallel to drug references for viewers who were not raised in the area.
All of these could be found at imdb.com's section for "Breaking Away".
This was the first time I ever saw this movie and thought it was cool.
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