Product Details

• Format: NTSC
• Region: All Regions
• Studio: the second society
• DVD Release Date: September 24, 2007
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000WCVINO
• Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #274,897 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

Friends creating music

In 1989 the idea of a band was planted in the minds of three friends. Three years later, this idea became a reality with the addition of new friends and band members. But when you are a teenager, it's hard to have your creativity taken seriously. With nowhere to play and no scene to be a part of, what do you do?

You build one yourself.

Music creating the scene

With little more than naivet? and boundless enthusiasm, the band sets out to build a music scene out of backyards, garages and rented town halls. In a year's' time, the band has established itself as a creative hub, drawing in more and more musicians, artists and aficionados into the fold and providing an outlet for the collective creative energies of the underage youth of the area.

The band did Breakdown

Once they had accomplished this task, unimagineable years before, where did they go from here? In the case of Foggy Mountain Breakdown, the answer is nowhere. However while the band disappeared into the void as so many independent artists do, the spirit and character lives on through the individual members, their future accomplishments and the many lives who's trajectories may have been changed through the experience.

"Breakdown" is the story of a band that never made it out of the incubator but in the process created an environment where others were inspired to take the chance of doing something creative themselves as well as the encouragement needed to do what many people consider impossible. The film "Breakdown" intends to extend this idea to a wider audience than the ones who lived the story, and provide another generation of musicians, artists and creative thinkers with the knowledge that even though you may not achieve financial success in any single creative venture that it is the attempt, not the result that is the true reward.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Buy it NOW!, October 3, 2007

By	Paul R. Ranola "Paul R." (Madison, WI) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Breakdown (DVD)

Totally sweet documentary! Funny, entertaining and well written. I highly recommend it! Buy it NOW!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "Breakdown" is a film about making something out of nothing., September 26, 2007

By	Jason Gullickson (Beaver Dam, WI, USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Breakdown (DVD)

This film is about a band started by a group of friends who knew nothing about music, had no instruments and had no one to teach them how to do it. The film reveals how, in spite of these meager beginnings, the band was able to spawn several other bands, create new forms of music and cultivate a scene.

The story behind the film follows a similar plot. "Breakdown" began with a grocery bag of VHS tapes given to director Matthew M. Cribben by producer Jason J. Gullickson. Matt was asked to "capture" these tapes so they could be archived for posterity, but while acquiring the footage a story began to emerge. Matt discussed with Jason the possibility of creating a feature film using this footage as a starting point and they agreed it would make a perfect first feature project for their new production company, "the second society".

The team then began to hunt down the original members of the band who had since diverged and taken very different paths in life, some still musicians, others not.

Ultimately the story of the film mirrors that of the musicians it features in that all that you need to create something, be it music, movies or anything else is an idea and the tenacity to never give up.