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Release Date: 1999 Cast: Tom Robbins, Scout LaRue Willis, Buck Henry, Ken Odom, Omar Epps, Albert Finney, Michael Jai White, Bruce Willis, Chip Zien, Ken Hudson Campbell, Kurt Vonnegut, Will Patton ...MORE
Cast: Tom Robbins, Scout LaRue Willis, Buck Henry, Ken Odom, Omar Epps, Albert Finney, Michael Jai White, Bruce Willis, Chip Zien, Ken Hudson Campbell, Kurt Vonnegut, Will Patton, Alison Eastwood, Jake Johannsen, Lukas Haas, Glenne Headly, Nick Nolte, Michael Clarke Duncan, Vicki Lewis, Barbara Hershey, Owen Wilson, Shawnee Smith ...LESS
Categories: Movies, Absurdism, Comedy-drama, Comedy, Satire, Black comedy, Tragicomedy 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. It was entered into the 49th Berlin International Film Festival.
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... MORE
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. It was entered into the 49th Berlin International Film Festival.
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 LESS
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