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Breakdown: 1975
Directed by
Morgan Neville
R
2025
1h 32m
Documentary
6.8
74%
6.4
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An essay on the year 1975, looking at the classic movies all released in that year.
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Cast of Breakdown: 1975
Jodie Foster
Narrator (voice)
Albert Brooks
Self
Ellen Burstyn
Self
Frank Rich
Self
Martin Scorsese
Self
Josh Brolin
Self
Oliver Stone
Self
James Risen
Self
James Wolcott
Self
Jefferson Cowie
Self
Bill Gates
Self
Joan Tewkesbury
Self
Kurt Andersen
Self
Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs
Self
Seth Rogen
Self
Wesley Morris
Self
Naomi Fry
Self
Patton Oswalt
Self
Peter Bart
Self
Peter Biskind
Self
Breakdown: 1975 Ratings & Reviews
National Review
Armond White
Neville's haphazard, imprecise, non-scholarly approach never uses the term "counterculture." He trusts the Hollywood mainstream without understanding how it co-opted Vietnam-Watergate-civil rights-era unrest.
The SS Ben Hecht
Stephen Silver
It's very fun, making strong choices about talking heads, narration, and clips. But it doesn't really go anywhere new
Status News
Brian Lowry
The better -- or at least more entertaining -- bet, "Breakdown: 1975," examines the risk-taking filmmaking that swept over Hollywood in the mid-1970s.
InSession Film
Romey Norton
For cinephiles and casual viewers alike, Breakdown: 1975 offers a lucid, engaging reminder that the movies are often at their most alive when the world around them is falling apart.
Common Sense Media
JK Sooja
This documentary is a curious tour through the American cultural landscape of the '70s. More specifically, Breakdown: 1975 is curious because it ultimately is only that, a tour. But at least, as a tour, it's a relatively good one.
FilmWeek (LAist)
Peter Rainer
It's a little too ambitious for its own good... But the clips are wonderful.
Talking Films
Dipankar Sarkar
Watching Breakdown: 1975 is like seeing a fireworks show through a kaleidoscope. The individual bursts, the famous scenes and celebrated voices, are vivid and exciting, but the constantly shifting view makes it difficult to grasp the larger picture.
Decider
Johnny Loftus
In the end, Breakdown feels like a gloss. Watchable, recognizable, full of podcast guest prompt nuggets, and ultimately kinda shallow. A Netflixian survey of film and cultural history.
AWFJ.org
Lynn Venhaus
However, this is an insightful, engaging retrospective that had me at the reel-to-reel tapes of The Conversation while Donna Summer was singing her breakthrough hit Love to Love You Baby.
Geek Vibes Nation
Phil Walsh
This documentary captures the feeling of America on the verge of a complete breakdown, and yet, rather than imploding, we turned to creative expression. Chaos became art.
Boston Globe
Odie Henderson
By the end credits, I still wasn't sure what to glean from the hodgepodge of ideas thrown at me. I concede that my expectations may have been set improperly by the title of this documentary. Your mileage may vary.
New York Times
Alissa Wilkinson
the best thing that "Breakdown: 1975" can do is help viewers discover films from the past that might have something to say to the present, too.
RogerEbert.com
Peter Sobczynski
It ends up being little more than a rambling, undisciplined clip show that misfires as both history and entertainment.
Nonfics (Substack)
Christopher Campbell
Its timeline is a bit scattered, its memory a bit generalizing, its points wandering, but I do like it when Neville cross-cuts different movies together to seem to be in conversation with one another.
The Hollywood Reporter
Daniel Fienberg
It's truly an odd documentary -- one likely to be enticing for viewers with a casual interest in history or filmmaking, but infuriating for anybody craving even intermediate instruction.
Wall Street Journal
John Anderson
His premise is flawed, and not just in terms of release dates.
What She Said
Anne Brodie
If you were conscious in 1975 and lived in North America, you will remember it as a turbulent year, and a banner year for bold, impressive, timely films. There's a lot to learn here.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
The documentary soon derails into bogus history, specious arguments and a self-blinding variety of political bias.
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