Breakfast of Champions

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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  )ra Hershey), his cross-dressing sales manager Harry (Nick Nolte), his dim secretary and mistress Francine (Glenne Headly), and Vonnegut's alter ego of sorts, pulp writer Kilgore Trout (Albert Finney). Dwayne is desperate for meaning in his life and starts to believe that Trout, who has been invited to the town's impending arts festival, will be able to tell him some truth he's never heard before. The EPA is investigating toxic sludge under property Dwayne owns, Celia is losing her already fragile grip on reality, Harry is growing increasingly paranoid that Dwayne knows about his private habits, and Francine is impatient with Dwayne's increasingly erratic behavior. Meanwhile, Kilgore Trout grouses about his failures and finally decides to attend the arts festival as a final act of self-humiliation. On top of all this, there are four or five other characters, all eccentric to the point of overload. It's difficult to get a fix on what the movie wants to be about, but Glenne Headly makes her character an island of sympathy in the ocean of everyone else's self-absorption, and Albert Finney creates some poignant moments as Trout is confronted by people who either scorn or worship his stories without any attempt to understand them. Featuring a cameo by Vonnegut. --Bret Fetzer

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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!

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  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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  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.

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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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