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Dominican Rep. Breakfast of Champions
- Original title
- Breakfast of Champions
- Year
- 1999
- Running time
- 110 min.
- Country
United States- Director
- Screenwriter
- Alan Rudolph. Novel: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
- Cast
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Bruce Willis
Albert Finney
Nick Nolte
Barbara Hershey
Glenne Headly
Lukas Haas
Omar Epps
Buck Henry
Vicki Lewis- Ken Hudson Campbell
- Jake Johnansen
Owen Wilson- Tisha Sterling
Shawnee Smith- See all credits
- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Comedy
- Synopsis
- 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 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.
- Awards
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1999: Berlin Film Festival: Official Selection
- Critics' reviews
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"The movie looks and feels like a frantic, live-action psychedelic cartoon."
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"Has some fine individual moments but fails to cohere into a grander, more substantial statement on the themes it aspires to tackle"
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"This starry ensemble dazzles, but the film never comes fully alive until its climactic 20 minutes, which are deeply moving"
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"A crude, manic and embarrassingly unfunny satire that feels off from beginning to end"
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"Among the year's biggest disappointments"
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"Consumerism is running more amok than ever, but this satire of it isn't"
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