Breakfast of Champions (film)

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name = Breakfast of Champions


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director = Alan Rudolph
producer = David Blocker David Willis
writer = Alan Rudolph
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starring = Bruce Willis Albert Finney Nick Nolte
music = Mark Isham
cinematography = Elliot Davis
editing = Suzy Elmiger
distributor = Warner Bros.
released = September 17, 1999
runtime = 110 min.
country = United States
language = English
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amg_id = 1:176057
imdb_id = 0120618

"Breakfast of Champions" is a 1999 film adapted and directed by Alan Rudolph from the novel of the same name by Kurt Vonnegut Jr..

Bruce Willis stars as Dwayne Hoover, a car dealer who is quickly losing touch with himself and reality. Albert Finney plays science fiction writer Kilgore Trout, a character who appears in several of Vonnegut's other stories. Nick Nolte plays Dwayne's cross-dressing business associate Harry LeSabre. Omar Epps is cast as Wayne Hoobler, a black jailbird attempting to work on Dwayne's lot. Lukas Haas makes a cameo as Bunny, Dwayne's homosexual 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 makes a one-line cameo as a TV commercial director.

Vonnegut's reaction

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." [ [http://www.harpercollins.com/books/9780060586232/Breakfast_of_Champions_CD_Unabridged/index.aspx Breakfast of Champions CD Unabridged by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr] ]

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* [http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/breakfast_of_champions/ Breakfast of Champions Film Reviews] at RottenTomatoes.com
* Breakfast of Champions (novel)