• Action, drama, romance. Director: Jim McBride. Starring: Richard Gere, Valérie Kaprisky, Art Metrano and others. Breathless is a 1983 American drama film directed...
  • Action, drama, romance. Director: Jim McBride. Starring: Richard Gere, Garry Goodrow, Lisa Jane Persky and others. Jesse has to get out of Las Vegas quickly...
  • Alamo Drafthouse icon logo. Breathless (1983). ... JLG's original film was a shocking provocation that, by 1983, had codified into a canonical classic.
  • When he makes it to L.A. he stays with Monica, a girl he has only known for a few days. As the film progresses, the police get closer to him, and the crimes escalate.
  • The breathless shooting style lingers forever on Gere's pumping, preening narcissism ... A wanton, playful film, belying the stated despair by its boiling energy. CPea.
  • The story and characters in both films may seem similar, but to call the 1983 Breathless a remake is a naive assumption.
  • The movie was widely panned at the time though and of course when you say “remake of BREATHLESS with Richard Gere” now it doesn’t sound very respectable.
  • Breathless (1983). ... Filming Locations Then And Now. Filminglocs. Film Oblivion. Forgotten Chicago. Hooked On Houses.
  • Although McBride would return to neo-noir with his next film, The Big Easy, it wasn’t half the film that Breathless was (although at the time it was more favourably...