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Synopsis: 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 Tesich's own life growing up in Bloomington, Indiana.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director(s): Arthur Penn
Production: Filmways Pictures
 
IMDB:
7.1
Rotten Tomatoes:
71%
R
Year:
1981
114 min
113 Views


Men of my family, they make dream...

they tell good story. I tell you that...

you do something good

so I can brag in old country...

about my son, the American!

Okay?

Okay, Mama.

There was always a man in the moon.

Now there's a man on the moon.

Two men.

They'll come down...

and the old man is gonna stay up there.

Are you sure you left everything in there,

Citizen Prozor?

- I said I did.

- I bet...

you squirreled away some stuff somewhere.

I bet he did.

Just this.

He saves everything.

Just think, someday we might look back

at all this...

and not remember a thing.

I just love you all so much.

Now what?

I never cried till I met him.

He says he wants to have three kids.

Two boys and a girl.

- You know what he wants to name them?

- All right.

You're all going to be godparents,

God damn it.

And in that way, if you don't come

and visit, then you'll feel guilty.

As soon as we leave Bessie Tift College,

we'll stop by...

on our way to somewhere.

Leave? We're not even there yet.

I hope you don't think

I'm going to stay down South forever.

Hell's bells, honey, it's a big country.

This move's yours, the next one's mine.

You know what we've never done?

- A lot of things.

- You got it, kiddo.

Here we go!

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Steve Tesich

Stojan Steve Tesich (Serbian: Стојан Стив Тешић, Stojan Stiv Tešić; September 29, 1942 – July 1, 1996) was a Serbian American screenwriter, playwright and novelist. He won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 1979 for the movie Breaking Away. more…

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