Breakdown: 1975
2025 documentary film
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Breakdown: 1975 is a 2025 documentary film exploring the year 1975 through the lens of American arts and culture, directed and produced by Morgan Neville.[1][2]
Lauren Belfer
Jody McVeigh-Schultz
| Breakdown: 1975 | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Morgan Neville |
| Produced by | Morgan Neville Lauren Belfer |
| Narrated by | Jodie Foster |
| Edited by | Alan Lowe Jody McVeigh-Schultz |
| Music by | Daniel Wohl |
| Distributed by | Netflix |
Release date |
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Running time | 92 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Reception
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 77% of 22 critics' reviews are positive.[3] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 49 out of 100, based on six critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews.[4]
Daniel Fienberg of The Hollywood Reporter wrote, "Breakdown: 1975 is packed with great clips and peppered with solid observations, but it's truly an odd documentary — one likely to be enticing for viewers with a casual interest in history or filmmaking, but infuriating for anybody craving even intermediate instruction."[1][excessive quote]
