Breathless

1983
R
1h 40m

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When Jesse Lujack steals a car in Las Vegas and drives down to LA, his criminal ways only escalate - but when will it end?When Jesse Lujack steals a car in Las Vegas and drives down to LA, his criminal ways only escalate - but when will it end?When Jesse Lujack steals a car in Las Vegas and drives down to LA, his criminal ways only escalate - but when will it end?

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6.0/10

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Awards
- 1 nomination total

Trivia
Michael Mann originally worked on the screenplay but left the project to make The Keep (1983).

Goofs
In the newspaper article that mentions the death of a CHiP officer, the text of the article has nothing to do with the headline.

Quotes
Lt. Parmental: Listen, listen. Listen! Don't F-U-C-K with the LAPD!

Alternate versions
Although the UK cinema version was uncut, the 1986 video release suffered 24 seconds of detailed edits to the scenes where Richard Gere breaks into and hot-wires a car, plus his breaking into 'Valerie Kaprisky''s flat using the lock pick. The cuts were fully restored in 2001 and the certificate downgraded to a "15".

Connections
Featured in At the Movies: Blue Thunder/Return of the Jedi/Breathless/La Traviata (1983)

Soundtracks
Breathless
Composed by Otis Blackwell
Performed by Jerry Lee Lewis
Rightsong Music, Inc./Obie Music
Polygram Records, Inc.

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Breathless baby....

It's funny to see Richard Gere now, so refined and soft spoken and remember he played the quintesential wild man in "Breatless". I remember when I saw this, I was so young but it blew me away. This isn't a movie that's especially strong no depth nor is it the most original movie-cmon hot bad by, hot bad girl on the run together etc etc. Not original in the slightest but the movie was wholly absorbing. It just worked.

I think this movie was completely decadent and was also a bit ahead of it's time-were it to be released now people wouldn't bat an eye but back then I remember it was pretty raunchy-I didn't know till I read some other reviews on here that Quenten Tarentino was a fan of this movie and there IS something about this movie that's a bit-I don't know-let's just say that I could see him making this.

I think the appeal of this movie was on alot of levels, it was decadent, controversial, featured two leads who even by HOLLYWOOD standards were absolutely incredible looking,besides being fastpaced, action oriented and featuring plenty of sizzling scenes between the two leads. Although this is far from my favorite movie it sure did leave me breathless!