Picks and Pans Review: Breaking Away

UPDATED 05/05/1980 at 01:00 AM EDT • Originally published 05/05/1980 at 01:00 AM EDT

NBC (9-11 p.m. ET)

Writer Steve Tesich won a best screenplay Oscar for this captivating story of coming of age in Indiana. Dennis Christopher stars as a youthful cyclist, Barbara Barrie got an Oscar nomination as his mother, and Paul Dooley gives one of the year's funniest performances as his harried father.