Breathless (1983)
He's the last man on earth any woman needs...and every woman wants.
Jesse, a small-time criminal, high-tails it to Los Angeles to rendezvous with a French exchange student. Stealing a car and accidentally killing a highway patrolman, he becomes the most wanted fugitive in L.A.
- Date of release
- 1983-05-13
- TMDB
- 5.9 / 10 (281)
- Runtime
- 1h 40m
- Genres
- Romance, Drama, Action
- Director
- Jim McBride
Casting
- Richard Gere — Jesse
- Valérie Kaprisky — Monica
- Art Metrano — Birnbaum
- John P. Ryan — Lt. Parmental
- William Tepper — Paul
- Robert Dunn — Sgt. Enright
- Garry Goodrow — Berrutti
- Lisa Jane Persky — Salesgirl
- James Hong — Grocer
- Waldemar Kalinowski — Tomachoff
- Jack Leustig — Highway Patrolman
- Eugène Lourié — Dr. Boudreaux
Interesting facts
- Based on: Breathless
Breathless is a 1983 American neo-noir romantic thriller film directed by Jim McBride, written by McBride and L. M. Kit Carson, and starring Richard Gere and Valérie Kaprisky. It is a remake of the 1960 French film of the same name directed by Jean-Luc Godard and written by Godard and François Truffaut. The original film is about an American woman and a French criminal in Paris, while the remake is vice versa in Los Angeles.
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