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Breakfast of Champions
Walt Disney

Breakfast of Champions reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 42 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
3.5 out of 10
based on 17 reviews
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MPAA RATING: R for sexuality and some language

Starring Bruce Willis, Albert Finney, Nick Nolte, and Barbara Hershey

Based on the novel by Kurt Vonnegut, this is the story of Dwayne Hoover (Willis), the most respected business man in Midland City, who is on the verge of a nervous breakdown. When Hoover meets Kilgore Trout (Finney), a misunderstood and impoverished writer, their two worlds collide, setting forth a ripple of events that will alter both men's lives -- along with Midland City forever. (Hollywood Pictures)


GENRE(S): Comedy  
WRITTEN BY: Alan Rudolph
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (novel)
 
DIRECTED BY: Alan Rudolph  
RELEASE DATE: DVD: June 30, 2000 
Video: February 15, 2000 
Theatrical: September 17, 1999 
RUNNING TIME: 110 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: USA 

What The Critics Said

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80
Dallas Observer Gregory Weinkauf
An adaptation that can rightfully be called brilliant.
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70
LA Weekly F. X. Feeney
It's great unruly fun.
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60
The New York Times Stephen Holden
The movie looks and feels like a frantic, live-action psychedelic cartoon.
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59
Mr. Showbiz Michael Atkinson
Just isn't funny enough to sustain the lunacy.
50
Variety Derek Elley
Has some fine individual moments but fails to cohere into a grander, more substantial statement on the themes it aspires to tackle.
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50
Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas
This starry ensemble dazzles, but the film never comes fully alive until its climactic 20 minutes, which are deeply moving.
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50
New York Daily News Jack Mathews
Among the year's biggest disappointments.
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50
Austin Chronicle Marjorie Baumgarten
Fails in a pretty spectacular manner but, to its everlasting credit, it goes down swinging and sometimes even connecting.
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50
New York Post Jonathan Foreman
A crude, manic and embarrassingly unfunny satire that feels off from beginning to end.
40
Rolling Stone Peter Travers
Quite a spectacle, but the movie falls flat.
40
Film.com Robert Horton
A weirdly stillborn experience.
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38
Boston Globe Jay Carr
Consumerism is running more amok than ever, but this satire of it isn't.
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30
TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
Vonnegut's brand of juvenile surrealism...doesn't age especially well...but it could hardly be worse served than to be brought to the screen with such ham-fisted literal-mindedness.
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30
Village Voice Amy Taubin
Begins on a note of total migraine-inducing hysteria, which continues unabated throughout.
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25
San Francisco Chronicle Peter Stack
It's both amazing and depressing how much talent goes to waste in the lame adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s 1973 absurdist novel.
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25
San Francisco Examiner Wesley Morris
This is the most-off-the-mark adaptation of a novel since Brian DePalma's what-was-that "Bonfire of the Vanities."
0
Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
A movie so unhinged it practically dares you not to hate it.
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What Our Users Said

Vote Now!The average user rating for this movie is 3.5 (out of 10) based on 4 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Mike L. gave it a 7:
I thought it had good intentions but needed work.

Tina L. gave it a 0:
It was the stupidest movie i have ever seen next to veggie tales and that movie was a mistake.

Ned D. gave it a 0:
The kind of film to make you want to gouge out your own eyes with a rusty soup spoon, just so you don't have to keep watching it. Ungodly.

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