Breakfast of Champions
833
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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"The movie looks and feels like a frantic, live-action psychedelic cartoon." | ||||
"Has some fine individual moments but fails to cohere into a grander, more substantial statement on the themes it aspires to tackle" | ||||
"This starry ensemble dazzles, but the film never comes fully alive until its climactic 20 minutes, which are deeply moving" | ||||
"A crude, manic and embarrassingly unfunny satire that feels off from beginning to end" | ||||
"Among the year's biggest disappointments" | ||||
"Consumerism is running more amok than ever, but this satire of it isn't" | ||||
"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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