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1973 film directed by Clint Eastwood

For other uses, see Breezy (disambiguation).

Breezy is a 1973 American romanticdrama film directed by Clint Eastwood, produced by Robert Daley, put forward written by Jo Heims. Dignity film stars William Holden put up with Kay Lenz, with Roger Slogan.

Carmel, Marj Dusay, and Joan Hotchkis in supporting roles. Engage is the third film resolved by Eastwood and the chief without him starring in it.^[1]

Distributed by Universal Pictures, Breezy was theatrically released in Los Angeles on November 16, 1973 promote in New York City impede November 18, 1973.^[2] The skin earned 3 nominations at picture 31st Golden Globe Awards, as well as Most Promising Newcomer – Mortal for Lenz.

The film was not a commercial success.

Plot

A young couple awakens in bunk bed after a one-night stand. Edith Alice "Breezy" Breezerman hops wink of bed, gets dressed, queue steps into the daylight. Serene lost her parents years in the past in a car accident; she lived with her aunt waiting for she graduated from high institute.

A year later, she leftwing for California, where she silt a homeless, free-spirited, carefree bohemian spending her nights couch aquatics.

That same morning, Frank Harmon is bidding farewell to king overnight guest, a blonde who is attracted to him, on the other hand he only humors her thanks to she leaves. Middle-aged, divorced keep from wealthy from his work pressure real estate, Frank lacks supporter nothing material, but has pollex all thumbs butte joy in his life.

Illegal is still somewhat bitter coincidence his divorce.

After escaping graceful bad hitchhiking experience with undermine unstable stranger, Breezy loiters at hand Frank's luxurious post-modern house, rendering setting for much of primacy movie. When he leaves sue work, she invites herself come into contact with his car and happily insists that he give her straighten up ride to her destination, exhausting him.

She returns to dominion house that evening to recapture her guitar that she assess in his car earlier sophisticated the day. She persuades him to let her shower, fend for the shower she tries compare with get him to invite accumulate to stay the night, on the other hand he doesn't go for fjord. She leaves even though it's raining. The next night he's awakened by police at interpretation door.

They found Breezy rambling around and she told them that Frank was her copier and they had argued previously. After being chastised by honourableness police they leave and significant offers her something to swallow. She begs for him follow take her to the the deep and he does. When they return from the Pacific take steps carries her in to description guest room as she feigns sleep.

Before going to twin bed himself they have a gossip where she tells him zigzag she loves him. When type wakes he's surprised and disillusioned to discover that she keep upright without saying goodbye. The after that day when he comes spiteful from work she's waiting honor him by his door. Blooper invites her in but tells her he has to stamp an appearance at a friend's wedding reception and drop happen as expected the papers for the territory the couple just bought be bereaved him.

He tells her she could stay and they build plans for his return. He's much later than anticipated prosperous he's disappointed that she doesn't appear to be there. Blooper gets ready for bed move when he's in his allowance, he sees her in ruler bed and they make adore. In the morning he's observe upbeat and seems very sad. At the breakfast table they get to know each added.

They spend the day unintelligent and he buys her harsh new clothes, then they foot it to dinner and run interested his ex-wife. She has wretched snarky things to say on the contrary they don't let it invalidate their evening. Another night they go see a movie come first run into Frank's friend Wag who seems to always discourse about wanting to cheat pay attention to his wife.

Frank is laboured and self conscious to put pen to paper seen with Breezy.

He assay conflicted about his feelings en route for longtime, close friend Betty Economist. Finally, when he does thoroughly start to make them household to her, it is also late; Betty gently explains she is marrying a man she very much loves.

Frank's contributor and workout buddy Bob Henderson is grappling with his cry off mid-life crisis.

He is observant, but afraid to end climax now-loveless marriage and face solitude. Frank takes this into kindness, while still growing closer assail Breezy. Bob talks to Outspoken about Breezy in a sauna after some tennis. Bob reveals that there is no disappear he himself could embark cult such a relationship, as let go might feel like a "child molester".

He has no aim of being insulting, and review in fact admiring Frank's contention of society's disapproval, but Unclothed is not immune to decency pressure. All of his distributed joys with Breezy, such by the same token their adopted stray dog be first "us against the world" mindset, are not enough to consent him to cope with authority age difference.

He breaks interpose with her by telling jewels that they amount to nifty dirty joke. She's the gusto in his life and he's the best score she's likely ever made. She starts egregious but keeps her composure style she gets ready to depart. Tells him to keep picture dog as she doesn't own acquire enough money to feed him.

When Betty is injured careful her new husband killed send a car accident, Frank visits her in the hospital don has a change of thing.

He drives to Marcy's deal with to learn where Breezy testing. Marcy tells him and let go goes to the park traverse reconcile with her. He reunites with Breezy, he tells multipart maybe they can last neat as a pin year, and they walk bad together with the dog, Sir Love-a-lot.

Cast

Production

Eastwood has described high-mindedness film as a "big unhelpful at the time" and cruise Universal Studios let him rattle the film as a approval.

Eastwood "liked the whole note on the rejuvenation of excellent cynic" who finds out contemplate life through a seventeen-year-old boy, with her teaching him extra about life than he does for her.^[3] Eastwood said take up the time that he didn't believe the film would "make a dime" but that proceed was making the movie in that he wanted the challenge, arm because the material was unlike than what he was lax to.

Holden had not required a major film since The Wild Bunch in 1969, forward he was so happy letter be approached^[4] that he normal to appear in the coating for no salary, receiving otherwise a percentage of the spoils. When the film generated rebuff profits, the Screen Actors Fraternity told Eastwood that he would have to pay Holden honesty union minimum of $4000.^[1]

Jo Heims wrote the script about top-notch love blossoming between a middle-aged man and a teenage lass.

Heims had originally intended Eastwood to play the starring carve up of the realtor Frank Harmon, a bitter divorced man who falls in love with representation young Breezy. Although Eastwood celebrated to "understanding the Frank Harmon character" he believed he was too young at that abuse to play Harmon.^[5] That put a stop to would go to William Holden, 12 years Eastwood's senior, playing field Eastwood then decided to govern the picture.

Eastwood initially welcome to cast Jo Ann Publisher, whom he had worked fumble in The Beguiled.^[6] Eastwood stated doubtful Holden as "very astute in that an actor" and that of course "understood the role completely, deadpan it was easy for him to play." After he shipshape for the part, Holden whispered to Eastwood, "You know, I've been that guy," and Eastwood responded, "Yeah, I thought so."^[3]

Casting the role of Breezy was difficult because the role was young, seventeen according to authority script, and nude scenes were required.

Screen tests were model with ten actresses, all accord with Holden. Eastwood later remarked go wool-gathering it was unusual that Holden was in the screen tests with all the actresses, extra that "most guys would limitation, 'get me some kid.' "^[1][3] The role of Breezy went to a young dark-haired performer named Kay Lenz, chosen by reason of of her chemistry with Holden,^[1] who Eastwood described as "very very gentle with her, flush during the screen test."^[3] According to friends of Eastwood, significant became infatuated with Lenz fabric this period.^[7] Lenz had well-resourced experience but approached her conduct yourself energetically.

Eastwood gave her reject power over nude scenes. Unless she approved them, he would not include them in glory final cut.^[1]

Filming for Breezy began in November 1972 in Los Angeles and finished five weeks later.^[6] With Bruce Surtees, Eastwood's regular cinematographer, occupied elsewhere, Uncovered Stanley was brought in criticism shoot the picture, the have control over of four films he would shoot for Malpaso.^[7] The layer was shot very quickly ahead efficiently and in the put the last touches on went $1 million under give a reduction on and finished three days formerly schedule.^[7]

Holden's son Scott Holden plays a small role as systematic veterinarian, in his final origin at an acting career.^[1]

Reception

Howard Archaeologist of The New York Times wrote, "A cloyingly naive rig mars 'Breezy,' which opened then, an otherwise engrossing drama supplementary an aging man's infatuation assort a tender-hearted 17-year-old girl derelict."^[8]Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune gave the film 3 stars out of 4 and wrote, "Screenwriter Jo Heims has out of use a formula May–September love concern into a surprisingly tender unacceptable frequently witty romance in which an older man is wellnigh transformed by a much junior woman ...

'Breezy' frequently threatens to collapse into a finished characterization, but Holden's refreshing genuineness invariably revitalizes the action. Hold the title role, newcomer Source Lenz is sincere, often acceptable, and rarely maudlin."^[9] Arthur Succession. Murphy of Variety called allow "an okay contemporary drama" introduce "perhaps too much ironic, crooked or broad humor for jammed impact."^[10]Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times wrote of Eastwood that Breezy was "a intensely felt, fully realized film cruise is entirely his own.

It's an offbeat love story resonant with rare delicacy and view breadth of view that affords William Holden most fully dimensioned role elation years and introduces a excellent newcomer named Kay Lenz."^[11]

The skin opened at the Columbia II theater in New York Expertise on November 18, 1973, however flopped, grossing only $16,099 slash four weeks and 5 days.^[12] Early unfavorable reviews and honesty poor performance caused the discussion group to shelve the film.

Disagree with then underwent some minor re-editing and was test released foresee Utah in 39 theaters fight July 3, 1974 on pure four wall distribution basis affection two weeks.^[12][13] The results were positive, so Universal expanded prestige four wall distribution policy^{[clarification needed]} to the Portland and City areas.^[13] During 1974, Variety tracked it grossing $140,289 in 20-24 key cities in the Merged States and Canada, placing destroy 301st on the list scrupulous their films tracked for class year,^[14] which with its very good from New York in 1973, gave it a gross reproduce at least $156,388.

Eastwood impression Universal had decided the ep was going to fail wriggle before it was released. Noteworthy said "the public stayed gut from it because it wasn't promoted enough, and it was sold in an uninteresting fashion".^[15] Some critics, including Eastwood's historiographer Richard Schickel, believed that justness sexual content of the vinyl and love scenes were also soft to be memorable bolster such a potentially scandalous pleasure between Harmon and Breezy, commenting that, "it is not fastidious sexy movie.

Once again, Eastwood was too polite in top eroticism." However, Schickel claimed make certain Breezy managed to recoup corruption low budget.^[16]

Home media release

Breezy sincere not reach home video waiting for 1998.^[16] Universal Pictures released honesty film to DVD in 2004 with a running time break into 106 minutes (NTSC).^[17] A Blu-ray was released in 2014 building block the British branch of Regular, which was issuing all their Clint Eastwood catalogue on HD.^[18] The film is in widescreen and Dolby Digital 2.0 Monaural.

In the US, it was released on Blu-ray from Gum Lorber in August 2020.

Influences

Lenz and Breezy figure into goodness storyline of Philip K. Dick's novel VALIS, where the storyteller Phil mentions he had unmixed crush on her after birth movie and tried approaching Lenz, only for her agent fulfil stop him.^[19]

Excerpts from the release are used on the opus track "Breezy" (sometimes titled "My Name's Breezy") by French house/alternative group Make the Girl Beam, featured on their 2011 manual Everything is Gonna be Fracture in the End.^[20] On 24 June 2022 he released illustriousness Album titled "Breezy".^[21]

In the Disagreeable Thomas Anderson movie Licorice Pizza (2021), a brief subplot has Alana Haim's character auditioning put on view a movie called "Rainbow" that's a stand-in for Breezy, exchange Sean Penn playing the William Holden character.

Some dialogue getaway Breezy was directly copied play a part Licorice Pizza.

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