Breakdown: 1975

Morgan Neville
2025-12-18


6.4
92 min

In 1975, as America faced social and political upheaval, filmmakers turned chaos into art.

Cast

Name Character Team
Jodie Foster Narrator (voice) The Free Refills
Albert Brooks Self Calvin and Nobbs
Ellen Burstyn Self Unowned
Frank Rich Self Unowned
Martin Scorsese Self Unowned
Josh Brolin Self Calvin and Nobbs
Oliver Stone Self Unowned
James Risen Self Unowned
James Wolcott Self Unowned
Jefferson Cowie Self Unowned
Bill Gates Self Unowned
Joan Tewkesbury Self Unowned
Kurt Andersen Self Unowned
Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs Self Unowned
Seth Rogen Self Calvin and Nobbs
Wesley Morris Self Unowned
Naomi Fry Self Unowned
Patton Oswalt Self Unowned
Peter Bart Self Unowned
Peter Biskind Self Unowned
Rick Perlstein Self Unowned
Sam Wasson Self Unowned
Todd Boyd Self Unowned
Robert Altman Self - Director, M*A*S*H & Nashville (archive footage) Unowned
David Brinkley Self - Co-Host, NBC Nightly News (archive footage) Unowned
Johnny Carson Self - Host, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (archive footage) Unowned
Kathy Carter Self - Anti-Busing Activist (archive footage) Unowned
John Chancellor Self - Host, NBC Nightly News (archive footage) Unowned
Frank Church Self - Chairman, Senate Select Committee (archive footage) Unowned
Sue Connor Self - Anti-Busing Activist (archive footage) Unowned
Rennie Davis Self - Anti-War Activist & Venture Capitalist (archive footage) Unowned
Werner Erhard Self - Founder, EST (archive footage) Unowned
Gerald Ford Self - 38th President of the United States (archive footage) Unowned
Lynette Fromme Self - Attempted Assassin of President Gerald Ford (archive footage) Unowned
Bob Hope Self - Co-Host, 47th Academy Awards (archive footage) Unowned
Ken Kashiwahara Self - ABC News Reporter (archive footage Unowned
Ted Kennedy Self - Pro-Busing Senator (archive footage) Unowned
Richard Nixon Self - 37th President of the United States (archive footage) Unowned
Dan Rather Self - Host, CBS Evening News (archive footage) Unowned
Ronald Reagan Self - Former Governor of California (archive footage) Unowned
Geraldo Rivera Self - Host, Good Night America (archive footage) Unowned
Felix Rohatyn Self - Chairman, Municipal Assistance Corporation (archive footage) Unowned
Bert Schneider Self - Producer, Hearts and Minds (archive footage) Unowned
Howard K. Smith Self - Host, ABC Evening News (archive footage) Unowned
Mario Van Peebles Self - Director, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (archive footage) Unowned
Sylvester Stallone Self/Rocky/Machine Gun Joe Viterbo (archive footage) Calvin and Nobbs
Steven Spielberg Self - Director of JAWS (archive footage) Unowned
Jack Nicholson Self (archive footage) Unowned
Roman Polanski Self - Director of Chinatown (archive footage) Unowned
Sidney Lumet Self - Director of Dog day afternoon (archive footage) Unowned
Charles Bronson Self - Actor in Death Wish (archive footage) Unowned
Richard Pryor Self (archive footage) Unowned
Al Pacino Sonny Wortzik (archive footage) Hangin with Mr. Cooper
Robert De Niro Travis Bickle (archive footage) Zac E. Chan
Gene Hackman (archive footage) Unowned
Betty Ford Self (archive footage) Unowned