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Breaking Away: Legacy, Plot & Reception

Breaking Away is a 1979 American coming of age comedy-drama film produced and directed by Peter Yates and written by Steve Tesich. It follows a group of four male teenagers in Bloomington, Indiana, who have recently graduated from high school. The film stars Dennis Christopher, Dennis Quaid, Daniel Stern (in his film debut), Jackie Earle Haley, Barbara…

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Breaking Away topic overview

The analysis highlights Legacy, Plot and Reception as prominent areas in the source structure around Breaking Away.

Related topics
71
Source areas
6
Connected nodes
77
Extracted relationships
57
Concept neighborhoods
27
Bridge connections
77

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Overview · 24 topics
Plot · 14 topics
Reception · 13 topics
Legacy · 8 topics
Production · 8 topics
Cast · 4 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Box office
$20 million
Budget
$2.3 million
Cinematography
Matthew F. Leonetti
Country
United States
Directed by
Peter Yates
Distributed by
20th Century-Fox

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

Plot

Cast

Production

Reception

Legacy

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Breaking Away connects Entity context

The extracted context around Breaking Away shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Breaking Away → Critic Dave Kehr, Dennis Christopher, Here, However, It, Janet Maslin, Movies, Paul Dooley, Pauline Kael, Peter Yates, Released, Roger Ebert, The, The New York Times's, The New Yorker, Variety Another extracted example is Breaking Away → AFI Catalog, Bambino, Box Office MojoBreaking Away, Feature FilmsBreaking Away, IMDbBreaking Away, June, Original, Rotten TomatoesGoogle Maps, Steve Tesich, TCM Movie Database. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Breaking Away

Top relations

related to Reception · 16
Breaking Away → Critic Dave Kehr, Dennis Christopher, Here, However, It, Janet Maslin, Movies, Paul Dooley, Pauline Kael, Peter Yates, Released, Roger Ebert, The, The New York Times's, The New Yorker, Variety
related to External links · 10
Breaking Away → AFI Catalog, Bambino, Box Office MojoBreaking Away, Feature FilmsBreaking Away, IMDbBreaking Away, June, Original, Rotten TomatoesGoogle Maps, Steve Tesich, TCM Movie Database
related to Legacy · 9
Breaking Away → Ashton, Barrie, Cutters, Haley, One, Shaun Cassidy, Stay Positive, The, The Hold Steady
related to Editing · 5
Breaking Away → Batteries Not Included, Cynthia Scheider, The Men's Club, Trace, Without
is a · 3
Breaking Away → 1979 American coming of age comedy-drama film produced and directed by Peter Yates and written by Steve Tesich, delightful treat, thoroughly delightful light comedy
Box office · 1
Breaking Away → $20 million
Budget · 1
Breaking Away → $2.3 million
Cinematography · 1
Breaking Away → Matthew F. Leonetti
Country · 1
Breaking Away → United States
Directed by · 1
Breaking Away → Peter Yates

Important terminology

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

film dave breaking away time christopher best 1979 tesich barrie won also dennis haley barbara university italian movie new american

Breaking Away relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 57 structured relationships around Breaking Away. Examples in this analysis include Breaking Away → Box office → $20 million and Breaking Away → Budget → $2.3 million. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Breaking AwayBox office$20 million1.00infobox
Breaking AwayBudget$2.3 million1.00infobox
Breaking AwayCinematographyMatthew F. Leonetti1.00infobox
Breaking AwayCountryUnited States1.00infobox
Breaking AwayDirected byPeter Yates1.00infobox
Breaking AwayDistributed by20th Century-Fox1.00infobox
Breaking AwayEdited byCynthia Scheider1.00infobox
Breaking AwayLanguageEnglish1.00infobox
Breaking AwayMusic byPatrick Williams1.00infobox
Breaking AwayProduced byPeter Yates1.00infobox
Breaking AwayRelease dateJuly 13, 1979 (1979-07-13)1.00infobox
Breaking AwayRunning time101 minutes1.00infobox
Breaking AwayStarringDennis Christopher Dennis Quaid Daniel Stern Jackie Earle Haley Barbara Barrie Paul Dooley Robyn Douglass1.00infobox
Breaking AwayWritten bySteve Tesich1.00infobox
Breaking Awayis a1979 American coming of age comedy-drama film produced and directed by Peter Yates and written by Steve Tesich0.90text
Breaking Awayis athoroughly delightful light comedy0.90text
Breaking Awayis adelightful treat0.90text

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Breaking Away bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Breaking, Tesich and Film. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Breaking Away
    • Breaking
    • Tesich
    • Film
    • Steve
    • Also
    • Barbara
    • Dooley
    • Paul
    • Release
    • Barrie
    • Best
    • Dennis
  • breaking away
    • Breaking
    • Tesich
    • Film
    • Steve
    • Also
    • Barbara
    • Dooley
    • Paul
    • Release
    • Barrie
    • Best
    • Dennis
  • dennis christopher
    • Christopher
    • Dennis
    • Daniel
    • Dooley
    • Earle
    • Jackie
    • Paul
    • Quaid
    • Stern
    • Haley
    • Barbara
    • Barrie
  • american film institute
    • Also
    • Film
    • Movies
    • Steve
    • Best
    • New
    • Tesich
    • Time
    • Dooley
    • Paul
    • Release
    • Blase
  • dave blase
    • Movie
    • Race
    • Team
    • Italian
    • Cyril
    • Dennis
    • Mike
    • University
    • Time
    • Steve
    • Dooley
    • Earle
  • dave kehr
    • Italian
    • Cyril
    • Dennis
    • Mike
    • Team
    • University
    • Time
    • Dooley
    • Earle
    • Jackie
    • Paul
    • Quaid
  • barbara barrie
    • Barrie
    • Haley
    • Daniel
    • Dooley
    • Earle
    • Jackie
    • Paul
    • Quaid
    • Stern
    • Dennis
    • Christopher
    • Tesich
  • dennis quaid
    • Jackie
    • Stern
    • Christopher
    • Daniel
    • Dooley
    • Earle
    • Haley
    • Paul
    • Quaid
    • Barbara
    • Barrie
    • Cyril

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Breaking Away, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Breaking Away with Overview. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Breaking Away — Overview · splits 53 ⟂ 25
Breaking Away — Plot · splits 63 ⟂ 15
Breaking Away — Reception · splits 64 ⟂ 14
Breaking Away — Production · splits 69 ⟂ 9
Breaking Away — Legacy · splits 69 ⟂ 9
Breaking Away — Cast · splits 73 ⟂ 5

Map overview Semantic statistics

Breaking Away

Nodes78
Edges77
Triples57
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.025641
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Breaking Away to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Legacy, Plot & Reception, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Breaking Away · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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