Breakfast of Champions
1999
In a world gone mad, you can trust Dwayne Hoover. Read more
| Starring | Bruce Willis, Albert Finney, Nick Nolte, Barbara Hershey |
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| Director | Alan Rudolph |
| Genres | Comedy |
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Breakfast of Champions
In a world gone mad, you can trust Dwayne Hoover.
| Starring | Bruce Willis, Albert Finney, Nick Nolte, Barbara Hershey, Glenne Headly, Lukas Haas, Omar Epps, Vicki Lewis |
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| Director | Alan Rudolph |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Comedy |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: not available Production year: 1999 |
| Format | DVD |
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As the richest man in a small town, Bruce Willis is having an existential crisis in this tedious adaptation of the Kurt Vonnegut Jr novel. He spends most of the movie contemplating ending it all and, after enduring two hours of this mess, you might too. An able cast — including Nick Nolte, Albert Finney and Barbara Hershey — supports Willis, but they are hindered by an incoherent script and uncertain direction by Alan Rudolph. Nolte in a dress is not a pretty sight.
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Everyone loves retail king Dwayne Hoover (Willis). Still, Dwayne starts every day sticking a gun in his mouth. His wife... read more on Time Out
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Quriky Madness
If you like movies such as Fear and loathing in las vegas then this is just for you. Sheer madness like watching an acid trip. The cast is fantastic Willis is on top form as Dwayne Hooper and the star stubbed cast give first rate performances. Every one that has seen this movie love it. Pure madness.
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In the Best Possible Taste: The Foodie Movie
- 08 Oct 2007
It was in Breakfast of Champions that Kurt Vonnegut imagined life on a planet devoid of all plants and animals save humanoids. These humanoids took pleasure in (to our minds) an exotic, even aberrant form of pornography. It wasn't the sexual act that repelled and transfixed them. It was images of food and eating. For an hour and a half, the movie camera barely strayed from close ups of lips, teeth, and bobbing Adam's apples as a family pigged out over a simulated meal. At the film's climax,... Read more
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