American Flyers

Infobox Film
name = American Flyers


caption = Promotional movie poster for the film
director = John Badham
writer = Steve Tesich
starring = Kevin Costner
Rae Dawn Chong
Alexandra Paul
David Marshall Grant
Janice Rule
producer = Paula Weinstein
Gareth Wigan
distributor =
released = 1985
runtime = 113 min.
country = United States
language = English
music = Greg Mathieson
Lee Ritenour
cinematography = Donald Peterman
editing = Jeff Jones
Frank Morriss
Dallas Puett
budget =
imdb_id = 0088707
amg_id =

"American Flyers" is a 1985 film starring Kevin Costner, David Marshall Grant, Rae Dawn Chong, Alexandra Paul and Janice Rule. It was directed by John Badham and written by Steve Tesich (who had previously won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for the similarly themed 1979 movie Breaking Away).

The 7-Eleven team that feature in the movie were a real life team that competed in the Tour de France in the '80s. The team was later sponsored by Motorola. Much of the race action was filmed at the Coors Classic, a now-defunct stage race that was one of the world's leading cycling events at the time of the film. Two stages in the film's featured race, the Morgul-Bismarck circuit race in Boulder and the "Tour of the Moon" at Colorado National Monument, were legendary Coors Classic stages.

The cycling legend Eddy Merckx made a brief appearance in the film as does Jennifer Grey.

Plot

Sports physician Marcus persuades his younger brother David to come with him and train for a bicycle race across the Rocky Mountains. However, there is a history of cerebral aneurysm in their family (which killed their father) and one of the brothers is destined never to finish the race.

Quotes

B. Muzzin to Sergei Belov: "Think about this Belov, I'm behind you, but really I'm two seconds ahead. You know why you won the olympics....because I wasn't there. But now I'm here. Only I'm not here, I'm two seconds ahead."

Woman Reporter: "It's a big day for American cycling, to have two Americans beat an Olympic champ. You must feel some pride." Jerome: "Come on man, walk it off." B. Muzzin: "No, no, I'm alright. OK. I'm not riding for America lady. I tried riding for America. I spent four years of my life working shitty jobs so I could train and make the Olympic team and ride for my... Look at me! And then some fatasses in Washington started having opinions. The Olympic Committee started having opinions. You, you bitch, I know you! You started writing your opinions. So we boycott the Olympics. I was in the best shape of my life in the summer of 1980 and I got beat by opinions." Woman Reporter: "Is that why you're boycotting the victory ceremony?" Muzzin: "What victory? There's two stages left." Woman Reporter: "Still, the fact remains..." Muzzin: "You wouldn't know a fact if it banged you all night long!"

B. Muzzin: "Enough of this Sunday stroll....let's hurt a little!"

M. Summers: "I heard you dropped out of pre-med." D. Summers: "Dropped out of pre-law to." M. Summers: "Oh yeah, so what's your major now?" D. Summers: "Actually I have a double major...eastern philosophy and cowboy movies....the yin, the yang, and the bang bang."

D. Summers: "Shinto philosophy teaches you to look at life as a seasonal occupation." M. Summers: "Sounds like Bull-shinto to me!"

Reception

Released prior to Costner becoming a household name, the film only had a limited release on 16 August 1985, and grossed $1.4 million in the U.S. [ [http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=americanflyers.htm American Flyers (1985) ] ]

External links

*imdb title|id=0088707|title=American Flyers (1985)

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