Breezy

1973

Action / Drama / Romance

10
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 65% · 8 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 65% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.0/10 10 6361 6.4K

small town beach hippie 1970s one-night stand older man younger woman relationship

Plot summary

A free-spirited young woman, Breezy, hitches a ride with an aging real estate salesman, Frank. Sensing that she just wants to use him he tries to have nothing to do with her. She's not that easy to shake, however, and over time a bond forms between them.

Director

Clint Eastwood Photo
Clint Eastwood

Top cast

Don Diamond Photo
Don Diamond as Maitre'D
Clint Eastwood Photo
Clint Eastwood as Man at Marina
Richard Bull Photo
Richard Bull as Doctor
Norman Bartold Photo
Norman Bartold as Man in Car
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
977.93 MB
1280*694
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 46 min
Seeds 2
1.77 GB
1920*1040
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 46 min
Seeds 18

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by AdamKey 8 / 10

Wisdom & Happiness

One of Clint Eastwood's early yet still obscure directorial efforts, `Breezy' gently and charmingly explores the nature of wisdom, which can be present in the most unusual of people and the real meaning of happiness, which is usually found in the oddest and least-expected of places, usually when one is not looking for it. Amid the smoldering cultural wreckage of the recently-ended 1960s with its nagging remnants of the shrill `don't trust anyone over 30' crowd and the seemingly still-unbridgeable `generation gap,' the odd and quirky relationship between the youthful, Ophelia-like Edith Alice `Breezy' Breezerman (Lenz) and the middle-aged Frank Harmon (Holden) successfully and simultaneously reveals several very simple but still frequently-ignored truths; that shrewdness and insight are not necessarily the sole province of the `aged' and that a carefree, happy spontaneity isn't and shouldn't be automatically restricted to the `young.' And, more subtly, we also are quietly reminded that neither wisdom nor happiness can realistically exist isolated from one another and that the bitter memories of our own respective pasts can often tragically prevent us from getting what we truly need the most.Like the Italian neo-realist director Sergio Leone under which Eastwood successfully toiled in the 1960s, the personalities of the film's characters are deliberately and slowly intensified but not over-presented or stereotyped, which adds to the power, insight and poignancy of this understated and well-produced film.
Reviewed by atlasmb 8 / 10

A Timeless Spirit

I don't think many people saw this film on its first release, but I did. I was about the same age as Kay Lenz (Breezy) and it was long before I considered William Holden (frank) my favorite actor. I enjoyed the film for its joyful spirit as personified by Breezy.This is a great love story. It deals with the nature of love, unbounded by conventions or expectations. As such, it also embodies the generally understood essence of the (California) flower child movement. Free love. If you love something, set it free...This film has a lot to say about aging and the maintenance of dreams, the preservation of youthfulness. As such, it is inspirational. Another film that deals with this subject is "Harold and Maude".Watching this film again took me back to the early seventies. Kay and I are now in our late sixties, but the message still resonates. Like the wonderful "Breezy's Song" by Marilyn and Alan Bergman, and Michel Legrand. I bet many people would never guess the film was directed by Clint Eastwood, if they didn't know.
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