![]() Ray later pretends Dave is a stranger when he rides past his father's used car lot and shouts hello in Italian. Dave returns with his trophy and announces that an Italian cycling team may race in Indiana soon. ![]() Ray wants Dave to get a job and move out, but Evelyn defends her son's interest in cycling and remaining at home with his parents, the way Italian people live. Later that morning, Dave rides his bike through town, singing in Italian, while his parents, Evelyn (Barbara Barrie) and Ray (Pau Dooley), discuss his recent behavior at breakfast. ![]() In Bloomington, Indiana, recent high school graduate Dave Stoller (Dennis Christopher) carries a cycling trophy as he walks through the woods with his friends Mike (Dennis Quaid), Cyril (Daniel Stern), and Moocher (Jackie Earle Haley), on their way to swim at an abandoned, water-filled quarry. After an incident at the race, Dave, with a little help from his parents and unwittingly by actions of his friends, has to reexamine his life, what he really wants to get out of it and how best to start achieving it. Beyond Katarina as he calls her, Dave's main immediate focus is that the Italian cycling team have announced that they will be in Indianapolis for an upcoming race, which he intends to enter to be able to race his idols. Dave passes himself off to her as an Italian exchange student named Enrico Gismondi. Dave crosses the unofficial line when he meets and wants to date a IU co-ed named Katherine Bennett, who, intrigued by Dave, in turn is already dating Rod, one of the big men on campus. He idolizes the Italian cycling team so much he pretends to be Italian, much to the chagrin of his parents, especially his used car salesman father, Ray Stoller, who just doesn't understand his son. Although he has no job and doesn't know what to do with his life, he is a champion bicycle racer. Although each of the four is a totally different personality from the other three, they also have in common the fact of being unfocused and unmotivated in life. The dichotomy is that the limestone was used to build the university, which is now seen as being too good for the locals who built it. There is great animosity between the cutters and the generally wealthy Indiana University students, each group who have their own turf in town. Living in the college town of Bloomington, Indiana, they are considered "cutters": the working class of the town so named since most of the middle aged generation, such as their parents, worked at the local limestone quarry, which is now a swimming hole. Best friends Dave, Mike, Cyril and Moocher have just graduated from high school.
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