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Release Date: 1999
Cast: Michael Clarke Duncan, Jake Johannsen, Lukas Haas, Will Patton, Glenne Headly, Barbara Hershey, Ken Odom, Alison Eastwood, Shawnee Smith, Chip Zien, Owen Wilson, Tom Robbins ...MORE
Cast: Michael Clarke Duncan, Jake Johannsen, Lukas Haas, Will Patton, Glenne Headly, Barbara Hershey, Ken Odom, Alison Eastwood, Shawnee Smith, Chip Zien, Owen Wilson, Tom Robbins, Omar Epps, Bruce Willis, Albert Finney, Kurt Vonnegut, Michael Jai White, Vicki Lewis, Scout LaRue Willis, Nick Nolte, Ken Hudson Campbell, Buck Henry ...LESS
Categories: Movies, Satire, Black Comedy, Comedy-Drama, Drama Film, Absurdism, Tragicomedy, Comedy
Breakfast of Champions is a 1999 American comedy film adapted and directed by Alan Rudolph from the novel of the same name by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
The film is a portrait of a fictional town in the Midwest that is home to a group of idiosyncratic and slightly neurotic characters. Dwayne Hoover (Bruce Willis) is a wealthy car dealership owner who is on the brink of suicide and is losing touch with reality.
Lukas Haas makes a cameo as Bunny, Dwayne's son, who, in the novel, plays piano in the lounge at the Holiday Inn. For legal reasons, in the film Bunny instead plays at the AmeriTel Inn.
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Breakfast of Champions is a 1999 American comedy film adapted and directed by Alan Rudolph from the novel of the same name by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
The film is a portrait of a fictional town in the Midwest that is home to a group of idiosyncratic and slightly neurotic characters. Dwayne Hoover (Bruce Willis) is a wealthy car dealership owner who is on the brink of suicide and is losing touch with reality.
Lukas Haas makes a cameo as Bunny, Dwayne's son, who, in the novel, plays piano in the lounge at the Holiday Inn. For legal reasons, in the film Bunny instead plays at the AmeriTel Inn.
Much of the film was shot in and around Twin Falls, Idaho.
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. makes a one-line cameo as a TV commercial director.
At the close of the Harper Audiobook edition of Breakfast of Champions, there is brief conversation between Vonnegut and long-time friend and attorney, Donald C. Farber in which the two, among jokes, disparage this loose film adaptation of the book as "painful to watch."
Breakfast of Champions received negative reviews, scoring a 25% on Rotten Tomatoes. In his review for The New York Times, Stephen Holden wrote, "In many ways, Breakfast of Champions is an incoherent mess. LESS
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