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Breakfast of Champions

  • 1999
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  • 1h 50min
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Bruce Willis in Breakfast of Champions (1999)
A rich car dealer is losing his mind. His son lives in the bomb shelter. His suicidal wife has an affair with his transvestite sales manager.
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Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueA rich car dealer is losing his mind. His son lives in the bomb shelter. His suicidal wife has an affair with his transvestite sales manager.A rich car dealer is losing his mind. His son lives in the bomb shelter. His suicidal wife has an affair with his transvestite sales manager.A rich car dealer is losing his mind. His son lives in the bomb shelter. His suicidal wife has an affair with his transvestite sales manager.

  • Réalisation
    • Alan Rudolph
  • Scénario
    • Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    • Alan Rudolph
  • Casting principal
    • Bruce Willis
    • Nick Nolte
    • Albert Finney
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  • NOTE IMDb
    4,6/10
    8,6 k
    MA NOTE
    • Réalisation
      • Alan Rudolph
    • Scénario
      • Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
      • Alan Rudolph
    • Casting principal
      • Bruce Willis
      • Nick Nolte
      • Albert Finney
    • 142avis d'utilisateurs
    • 22avis des critiques
    • 42Métascore
  • Voir les informations de production sur IMDbPro
    • Récompenses
      • 1 nomination au total

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    Bruce Willis
    Bruce Willis
    • Dwayne Hoover
    Nick Nolte
    Nick Nolte
    • Harry Le Sabre
    Albert Finney
    Albert Finney
    • Kilgore Trout
    Barbara Hershey
    Barbara Hershey
    • Celia Hoover
    Glenne Headly
    Glenne Headly
    • Francine Pefko
    Lukas Haas
    Lukas Haas
    • George 'Bunny' Hoover
    Omar Epps
    Omar Epps
    • Wayne Hoobler
    Vicki Lewis
    Vicki Lewis
    • Grace Le Sabre
    Buck Henry
    Buck Henry
    • Fred T. Barry
    Ken Hudson Campbell
    Ken Hudson Campbell
    • Eliot Rosewater
    • (as Ken Campbell)
    • …
    Jake Johannsen
    Jake Johannsen
    • Bill Bailey
    Will Patton
    Will Patton
    • Moe the Truck Driver
    Chip Zien
    Chip Zien
    • Andy Wojeckowzski
    Owen Wilson
    Owen Wilson
    • Monte Rapid
    Alison Eastwood
    Alison Eastwood
    • Maria Maritimo
    Shawnee Smith
    Shawnee Smith
    • Bonnie MacMahon
    Michael Jai White
    Michael Jai White
    • Howell
    Keith Joe Dick
    Keith Joe Dick
    • Vernon Garr
    • Réalisation
      • Alan Rudolph
    • Scénario
      • Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
      • Alan Rudolph
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    4muscato

    A disappointed fan of the book

    After a recent Vonnegut reading binge I was eager to see Breakfast of Champions when I saw it on the video shelf. A great cast, a director (Aland Rudolph) who has made several films I've enjoyed (Choose Me, The Moderns, Trouble in Mind). Sadly, BofC is quite a disappointment.

    Two things really stick out for me. Although Bruce Willis was quite good as Dwayne Hoover, too many of the other characters, notably Harry LeSabre (Nick Nolte) and Wayne Hoobler (Omar Epps) are portrayed in frenetic over the top performances. OK...we get it that there are all sorts of crazies running amuck in Midland City, but the point Vonnegut was making in his novel was that this madness is displayed in the "normal" everyday way that we live our lives in America. The values (consumerism, greed, violence) and actions that are considered normal in the United States are themselves proof that we are all suffering from a form of madness...showing these fine actors jumping around and uttering indecipherable gibberish shows only that they are annoying.

    The film also has a problem in creating a consistent point of view. In the novel the author guides us through Dwayne Hoovers' unfolding madness and is actually a character in the book. The movie can't give us the background information the books' narrator did and I would guess that anyone who hasn't read the book will find the movie tough going...perhaps downright incomprehensible.

    Lastly, as a great fan of Kilgore Trout (Vonnegut fans know him as a character who pops up in several Vonnegut novels) I thought Albert Finney did quite a nice job; he had just the right air of unkempt, curmudgeonly, insane genius that makes Trout my favorite Vonnegut character of all time. Still, it's hardly enough to save this mess...I admire the effort in bringing Breakfast of Champions to the screen, but in the end it's likely that this is an unfilmable novel.
    sunsix

    terminus

    I'm afraid that in the era of pop-no-where-ism, where the reality show sets the rules; films like this one will get worse and worse reviews as time moves on. I didn't read Vonnegut until my early thirties and I grew up with Vonnegut's as a kid-no kidding. When I started reading, I just read and read in one extensive gulp. First, there's no good way to try to adapt a Vonnegut book to film. To the reviewers -if you can call them that-who say I've read the book and this movie is a miserable adaptation-go figure?! This is a very good vetting of the themes Vonnegut loves, and using the rambling urban neuroses approach, mastered by Altman, Rudolph revvs us up for the big psychic upchuck that this is all about. This is not a great movie but given the importance of self reflection to American society and the rarity of it, in contemporary society-this movie is a landmark and a watermark, both.
    bob the moo

    To the casual viewer this will be messy, pointless and disjointed to the point of being painful

    Midland City is a perfectly ordinary American city. Within the confines of this small world, dealership owner Dwayne Hoover is a celebrity despite the fact that his wealth and success has only served to make him more and more unstable and unhappy. His wife is suicidal and his secretary offers limited relief in their affair. Not that many others have it better. Harry Le Sabre is his sales manager and is full of guilt over his cross dressing and active sex life. With this community breaking down, small time porno-mag article contributor Kilgore Trout makes his way to the city to take his place as the guest of honour at the arts fest – not quite sure how anyone has heard of him.

    Another commentator on this site has said that if you showed this film to ten people then probably eight would hate it; those praising it have claimed it to be a wonderful version of Vonnegut's novel. Not having read this, I can believe that he (and this) is an acquired taste because I found it to be an almost unbearably messy affair that was delivered in a silly manner that offered little of interest. Indeed for much of the film I wasn't sure what to make of it. Perhaps it tried to do too much but there seemed to be so many characters rammed in here that most of them just seemed out of place and with no development whatsoever. Of course it didn't help that I didn't see much about those given plenty of time either. Dwayne himself is the perfect example of this; his madness seems to have a reason but the film does a terrible job in bringing this out.

    Rudolph seems passionate in his direction but it seems he is too close to the material and his direction might assume a familiarisation with the material that the mass audience will not have. The delivery is too silly and knowingly manic – it takes away from the material and it left me feeling like perhaps it was my fault for not having read the story before watching it. It annoyed me as well that such a starry cast were mostly wasted – presumably they saw something in the material that did not make it to the screen. Willis tries hard but is not supported at all. Finney spends most of the time in his own film, not really fitting into the narrative. Nolte is amusing; Hershey is wasted; Epps has been told something by the director that the rest of us aren't let into. Patton, Wilson, Haas, Lewis and others provide thankless supports.

    This may well be perfect for fans of Vonnegut, I cannot say but suffice to say that I am not one of them. However for the casual viewer this is messy, disjointed and pointless to the point of being painful. I gave it two hours as I tried to work it out, hoping that it would make something out of itself but in the end I was left out of pocket with nothing to show for my investment.
    6tone143

    4.1?

    Yes,"Breakfast Of Champions" is a brilliant original literary work by Kurt Vonnegut.No,the film adaptation does not do justice to the multi-layered masterpiece.Sure,maybe Robert Altman,Terry Gilliam,or David Lynch might have made better versions of it than Alan Rudolph.But a 4.1?When derivative pieces like "Disturbia",or mindless action films(I could name 50)are scoring 6's and 7's on IMDb,something is seriously out of whack.The performances alone in Breakfast are worth the price of admission,and it's got some quirky,twisted little comic moments in it.Maybe it didn't quite capture the profundity of the book like Slaughterhouse Five did,but c'mon,let's get real here.I think that maybe hardcore cult film afficianados thought it was too commercial(or something?),and the general audience out there didn't really give a rat's ass either way,so I guess that explains the 4.1.I'm giving it a well-deserved 6.Thanks.
    artimusduck

    Sorry failed adaptation . . . stinky head cheese

    I'll keep it short: absolutely loved the book, for over 20 years. Still holds up and retains the quirky, sarcastic and sardonic elements that made me fall in love with it when I was 15. The movie is yet another failed adaptation of Vonnegut's work. It tries, it swings for the fences, but ultimately, it completely misses. I wanted to like this movie. I tried reeeaaalllll hard, but let's face it, it stinks.

    I'm not a literature snob, I think many outstanding films have been made from great books (To Kill a Mockingbird, for one), many great films have been made from sub-par books (Being There, in my opinion is one), and pretty good films CAN be made from Vonnegut (SH5 was a pretty good adaptation and Mother Night was very good, I

    thought). This one was not a good film, or even a decent film. It stunk big head cheese left on a hot Texas porch in July.

    It wasn't for lack of trying or talent, it just failed to understand the material or simply wasn't able to translate it to film (and I just gotta say, I don't care if BoC is Willis' favorite book, he can't pull off Dwayne Hoover and his presence, while being the sole reason for this adaptation's existence, kills the film, from his acting to his obvious control over it behind the scenes as a producer and a financier). Imagine if William H. Macy was in it. That might be a good film. Try to avoid the temptation to see if this group can pull the movie off. They can't and you will be left unfulfilled and depressed, or even p*ssed off. Like I was.

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    • Anecdotes
      After the success of Robert Altman's Nashville (1975), Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.'s novel was bought by Producer Dino De Laurentiis for Altman. Altman's cast for the film included Peter Falk as Hoover, Alice Cooper as his son Bunny, Sterling Hayden as Kilgore Trout, and Ruth Gordon as Eliot Rosewater (as Rosewater was to be portrayed as an old man, Altman thought it didn't matter that Gordon was a woman, as he believed gender differences were not as strong in the elderly). After the De Laurentiis-produced Buffalo Bill et les Indiens (1976) flopped, the project went into turnaround.
    • Citations

      Dwayne Hoover: It's all life until you're dead.

    • Crédits fous
      In the opening credits, Vonnegut's drawing of an "asshole" (from the novel) is shown when "directed by Alan Rudolph" appears on the screen.
    • Connexions
      Follows Abattoir 5 (1972)
    • Bandes originales
      Stranger in Paradise
      Written by Chet Forrest, Bob Wright (after Aleksandr Borodin)

      Performed by Martin Denny

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    • How long is Breakfast of Champions?Alimenté par Alexa

    Détails

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    • Date de sortie
      • 21 avril 1999 (France)
    • Pays d’origine
      • États-Unis
    • Langue
      • Anglais
    • Aussi connu sous le nom de
      • Desayuno De Campeones
    • Lieux de tournage
      • Twin Falls, Idaho, États-Unis
    • Sociétés de production
      • Flying Heart Films
      • Hollywood Pictures
      • Rain City
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    • Budget
      • 12 000 000 $US (estimé)
    • Montant brut aux États-Unis et au Canada
      • 178 278 $US
    • Week-end de sortie aux États-Unis et au Canada
      • 42 326 $US
      • 19 sept. 1999
    • Montant brut mondial
      • 178 278 $US
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      • 1h 50min(110 min)
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    • Mixage
      • Dolby Digital
    • Rapport de forme
      • 1.85 : 1

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