Breezy
A young girl runs away from home and meets a grouchy older man who reluctantly takes her in. Eventually they develop a romantic and affectionate relationship. Breezy (Kay Lenz) is a teenage hippie with a big heart. After taking a ride with a man who only wants her for sex, Breezy manages to escape. She runs to hide on a secluded property where stands the home of a middle-aged divorced man, Frank Harmon (William Holden). Frank reluctantly takes Breezy in only to fall, unexpectedly, in love with her. —Kelly In this Counterculture vs. Establishment romance, Frank Harmon (William Holden) is a middle-aged businessman, recently divorced and bitter about his life and the world in general. One morning he discovers a pretty, hippie-esque girl who calls herself Breezy (Kay Lenz) asleep on his front porch. Frank asks her to leave and she politely obeys. She forgets her guitar, however, and returns the next day to retrieve it. Breezy also asks Frank if he would let her take a bath. He agrees, and even lets her sleep at his house that night. A few days later, Breezy turns up at again at Frank's doorstep with a cop; after being arrested for vagrancy, she told the police that she lived with her uncle Frank. Frank plays along and, against his better judgment, agrees to let her stay with him. After spending time together, Frank and Breezy open up to each other, discussing their feelings on a variety of issues. A friendship grows between them that, in time, becomes a love affair, but Frank's friends find fault in his new romance, and he breaks it off, a decision he comes to regret. This was the first movie Clint Eastwood directed in which he did not star, something he would not do again until Bird (1988). —Jack Herer A free-spirited young woman, Breezy, hitches a ride with an aging real estate salesman, Frank. Sensing that she just wants to use him he tries to have nothing to do with her. She's not that easy to shake, however, and over time a bond forms between them. —grantss Wanting to experience life in the world away from her small Pennsylvania hometown of Intercourse a year following high school graduation, free spirit Edith Alice Breezerman, who prefers to be called Breezy, has been in Los Angeles for three months living primarily with her drug-addict friend Marcy and Marcy's boyfriend David. With no real desire for a long term job and thus with no money - she only having the clothes on her back and a cheap guitar - Breezy will find a bed or couch elsewhere whenever Marcy is too drugged-out for her liking. Breezy is sincere in her feelings, she, in whatever she may offer others, not expecting anything in return beyond human decency. When she meets fifty-something real estate agent Frank Harmon, all Frank sees in her is another unkempt hippie who wants to sponge off society. Frank, a loner who lives a comfortable life in a house in the Hollywood hills, steers away from any committed relationship in the disaster that was his first and only marriage. As such, he is once again by himself when his "no-strings" girlfriend Betty Tobin, who could admit to him and herself that she is in love with him, announces that she is getting married to someone else in knowing there is no future for her and Frank. As such, Frank, with who Breezy quickly admits that she has also fallen in love, eventually opens himself up to her. In Frank falling in love with Breezy in return, the question becomes whether Frank can overcome his own pre-Breezy biases and what he perceives as those in his social circle about a relationship of their nature. —Huggo
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