About the movie: year - Awards /: Oscar5 / Golden Globe4 / 1979 / 1 hour 41 min. sport / The plot of the film "Going Away": Four friends - Mike, Dave, Moocher and Cyril - live in a university town in the USA - Bloomington. The boys have graduated from school and the same "adult life" awaits them. Dave loves Italian culture and cycling, although he doesn't have much luck in competitions. And one day a guy falls in love with a pretty student Katherine, but he doesn't understand how to win her heart at all. Friends tell Dave the way out: he needs to build a great cycling team... "Breaking Away" won an Oscar and took the 8th place in the list of the 100 most inspiring American films of the 100 years according to the American Film Institute.