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Breakfast of Champions

Comedy 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 (Barbara 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 ... [+]
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United States
The New York Times
"The movie looks and feels like a frantic, live-action psychedelic cartoon."
United States
Variety
"Has some fine individual moments but fails to cohere into a grander, more substantial statement on the themes it aspires to tackle"
United States
Los Angeles Times
"This starry ensemble dazzles, but the film never comes fully alive until its climactic 20 minutes, which are deeply moving"
United States
New York Post
"A crude, manic and embarrassingly unfunny satire that feels off from beginning to end"
United States
New York Daily News
"Among the year's biggest disappointments"
United States
Boston Globe
"Consumerism is running more amok than ever, but this satire of it isn't"
United States
SFGATE
"It's both amazing and depressing how much talent goes to waste in the lame adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s 1973 absurdist novel." 
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