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Plot: Director Alan Rudolph's adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's novel Breakfast of Champions centers on suicidal car dealer Dwayne Hoover (Bruce Willis), his drug- and television-addled wife Celia (Barba...( read more read more... )

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  • 1.0 Star
    MCT:
    March 22, 2008
    This movie was just awful. It ruined a fantastic book with a strange, wonderful story and turned it into schizophrenic piece of crap. I wasn't expecting the greatest because the story is complex and I just wanted to see what they would do with it. Don't even bother.
  • 2.5 Stars
    MCT:
    March 13, 2008
    Bruce Willis was fun in the movie, but I think his likability rapidly decreases when he thinks nothing matters anymore. Nick Nolte's cross dressing is annoying. Still, the film was entertaining.
  • 0.5 Stars
    MCT:
    January 28, 2008
    "Breakfast of Champions" might well be my favorite book. This adaptation is terrible. It does not survive as a work, on its own, and it made me wish I could just watch the movie that the book made in my head. Like Vonnegut wrote, "The big show's inside my head." The big show is definitely not this poorly wrought vision of one of KV's very best.
  • 3.5 Stars
    MCT:
    January 17, 2008
    a great look at suburban life in a small town in the 90's, where television and pills rules the nation. made it obvious that it wasn't a direct adaptation of the Vonnegut book, therefore making it enjoyable. Willis proves he can play something other than a hero, and puts on a phenomenal performance. He even still gets to shoot a gun, but this time at a TV!
  • 2.0 Stars
    MCT:
    January 6, 2008
    This was turned into a completely different story... I don't know what happened, but Kurt Vonnegut must've approved it though, he's part of the cast. I still didn't like it that much...

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  • allbarbmay
    I've read a lot of reviews that said this movie was horrible, but I've always considered it one of the better adaptations for the screen. The cast is marvelous, and that sense of the absurdly hilarious that Vonnegut was so well known for is prominent. Albert Finney is wonderful as Kilgore Trout. I will probably sit down and watch this again this weekend, to mourn the loss of one of my hero's, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. RIP.
    posted 449 days ago

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  • Rated: (R)
  • Directed by: Alan Rudolph
  • Genres: Comedy
  • Released: September 17, 1999
  • DVD Released: June 30, 2000

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