Breakdown: 1975
Morgan Neville2025-12-18
6.85
92 min
In 1975, as America faced social and political upheaval, filmmakers turned chaos into art.
Cast
| Name | Character | Team | |
|---|---|---|---|
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Jodie Foster | Narrator (voice) | The Free Refills |
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Albert Brooks | Self | Calvin and Nobbs |
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Ellen Burstyn | Self | Unowned |
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Frank Rich | Self | Unowned |
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Martin Scorsese | Self | Unowned |
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Josh Brolin | Self | Calvin and Nobbs |
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Oliver Stone | Self | Unowned |
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James Risen | Self | Unowned |
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James Wolcott | Self | Unowned |
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Jefferson Cowie | Self | Unowned |
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Bill Gates | Self | Unowned |
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Joan Tewkesbury | Self | Unowned |
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Kurt Andersen | Self | Unowned |
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Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs | Self | Unowned |
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Seth Rogen | Self | Calvin and Nobbs |
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Wesley Morris | Self | Unowned |
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Naomi Fry | Self | Unowned |
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Patton Oswalt | Self | Unowned |
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Peter Bart | Self | Unowned |
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Peter Biskind | Self | Unowned |
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Rick Perlstein | Self | Unowned |
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Sam Wasson | Self | Unowned |
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Todd Boyd | Self | Unowned |
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Robert Altman | Self - Director, M*A*S*H & Nashville (archive footage) | Unowned |
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David Brinkley | Self - Co-Host, NBC Nightly News (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Johnny Carson | Self - Host, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Kathy Carter | Self - Anti-Busing Activist (archive footage) | Unowned |
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John Chancellor | Self - Host, NBC Nightly News (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Frank Church | Self - Chairman, Senate Select Committee (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Sue Connor | Self - Anti-Busing Activist (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Rennie Davis | Self - Anti-War Activist & Venture Capitalist (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Werner Erhard | Self - Founder, EST (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Gerald Ford | Self - 38th President of the United States (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Lynette Fromme | Self - Attempted Assassin of President Gerald Ford (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Bob Hope | Self - Co-Host, 47th Academy Awards (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Ken Kashiwahara | Self - ABC News Reporter (archive footage | Unowned |
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Ted Kennedy | Self - Pro-Busing Senator (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Richard Nixon | Self - 37th President of the United States (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Dan Rather | Self - Host, CBS Evening News (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Ronald Reagan | Self - Former Governor of California (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Geraldo Rivera | Self - Host, Good Night America (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Felix Rohatyn | Self - Chairman, Municipal Assistance Corporation (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Bert Schneider | Self - Producer, Hearts and Minds (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Howard K. Smith | Self - Host, ABC Evening News (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Mario Van Peebles | Self - Director, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Sylvester Stallone | Self/Rocky/Machine Gun Joe Viterbo (archive footage) | Calvin and Nobbs |
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Steven Spielberg | Self - Director of JAWS (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Jack Nicholson | Self (The Passenger-archive footage) | Unowned |
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Roman Polanski | Self - Director of Chinatown (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Sidney Lumet | Self - Director of Dog day afternoon (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Charles Bronson | Self - Actor in Death Wish (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Richard Pryor | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Al Pacino | Sonny Wortzik (archive footage) | Hangin with Mr. Cooper |
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Robert De Niro | Travis Bickle (archive footage) | Zac E. Chan |
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Gene Hackman | Self (The Conversation/The Poseidon Adventure- archive footage) | Unowned |
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Betty Ford | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Pam Grier | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Faye Dunaway | Self (Network- archive footage) | Unowned |
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Louise Fletcher | Self (archive footage- One Flew Over the Cuckoo Nest Nurse Ratched) | Unowned |
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John Wayne | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Richard Nixon | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Gerald Ford | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Paul Newman | Self (The Towering Inferno-archive footage) | Unowned |
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David Byrne | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Peter Finch | Self (archive footage- Howard Beale Network) | Unowned |
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Donald Pleasence | Self (archive footage- Escape to Witch Mountain) | Unowned |
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Richard Pryor | Self (archive photo/footage) | Unowned |
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Richard Roundtree | Self (Shaft- archive footage) | Unowned |
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Chevy Chase | Self (Saturday Night Live- archive footage) | Unowned |
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Bert Schneider | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Bob Hope | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Frank Sinatra | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
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John F. Kennedy | Self (archive footage/photo) | Unowned |
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Robert F. Kennedy | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Martin Luther King Jr. | Self (archive photo) | Unowned |
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Frank Church | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Adolf Hitler | Self (archive photo) | Unowned |
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Kathy Carter | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Johnny Carson | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Ted Kennedy | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Burt Reynolds | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Nancy Reagan | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Irwin Winkler | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Sylvester Stallone | Self (archive footage) | Calvin and Nobbs |