Breakfast of Champions

1999

Comedy

5
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 28% · 50 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 32% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 4.6/10 10 8709 8.7K

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Director

Alan Rudolph Photo
Alan Rudolph

Top cast

Nick Nolte Photo
Nick Nolte as Harry Le Sabre
Bruce Willis Photo
Bruce Willis as Dwayne Hoover
Michael Jai White Photo
Michael Jai White as Howell
Owen Wilson Photo
Owen Wilson as Monte Rapid
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1008.23 MB
1280*694
English 2.0
NR
us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 49 min
Seeds 4
2.02 GB
1920*1040
English 5.1
NR
us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 49 min
Seeds 17

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by tone143 6 / 10

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.
Reviewed by muscato 4 / 10

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.
Reviewed by jcc-6 4 / 10

Not for fans of the book

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