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Breakaway

Play trailer Poster for Breakaway PG-13,  2011,  1h 41m,  Comedy Play Trailer Watchlist
Watchlist 17% 6 Reviews Tomatometer 38% 500+ Ratings Popcornmeter
17% Tomatometer 6 Reviews 38% Popcornmeter 500+ Ratings
A young man is torn between his traditional Indo-Canadian family expectations and his dreams of playing hockey.

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Kate Taylor Globe and Mail Sep 30, 2011
2/4
With a script credited to five writers including its star Vinay Virmani, it is a movie that keeps skating madly off in different directions and desperately needs more coaching than director Robert Lieberman provides. Go to Full Review
Peter Howell Toronto Star Sep 30, 2011
2/4
[A] pleasant timewaster, which has a good cast but a not-so-good script. Go to Full Review
Dennis Harvey Variety Sep 20, 2011
There are no surprises here, with father-son crisis and reconciliation, scaled-down quasi-Bollywood production numbers and the climactic big game all arriving on cue. Go to Full Review
Richard Crouse Richard Crouse Jan 31, 2021
1/5
It's amazing that a country which professes to love hockey makes such lame movies about the sport. Go to Full Review
Louis Proyect rec.arts.movies.reviews Jul 13, 2013
Much better than the other reviews reflect. A feel-good entertainment that sheds light on the misunderstood but heroic Sikh peoples. Now available on Netflix streaming, see for yourself and don't rely on the critics. Go to Full Review
Kevin Williamson Jam! Movies Sep 30, 2011
2.5/5
The shakiest scenes in Breakaway, a hockey-meets-Bollywood mash-up about skating Sikh-Canadians, occur on the ice. Take that for what you will. The rest of this nimbly-paced but routinely-plotted sports fable is tolerably more entertaining. Go to Full Review
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Cast & Crew

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Robert Lieberman

Director

Russell Peters

Sonu

Rob Lowe

Coach Dan Winters

Camilla Belle

Melissa

Noureen DeWulf

Reena

Akshay Kumar

Actor

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Breakaway

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Movie Info

Synopsis A young man is torn between his traditional Indo-Canadian family expectations and his dreams of playing hockey.
Director
Robert Lieberman
Screenwriter
Noel S. Baker, Jeff Schechter, Vinay Virmani, Matt Simmons
Production Co
Caramel Films
Rating
PG-13 (Some Language)
Genre
Comedy
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Dec 24, 2012
Runtime
1h 41m
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