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81
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81
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74
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71
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71
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69
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68
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65
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64
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63
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63
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63
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60
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57
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57
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55
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53
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52
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51
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49
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Breakfast of Champions
Walt Disney
FILM:
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)
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| 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 |
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80
Dallas Observer
Gregory Weinkauf
An adaptation that can rightfully be called brilliant.
70
LA Weekly
F. X. Feeney
It's great unruly fun.
60
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
The movie looks and feels like a frantic, live-action psychedelic cartoon.
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.
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.
50
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
Among the year's biggest disappointments.
50
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Fails in a pretty spectacular manner but, to its everlasting credit, it goes down swinging and sometimes even connecting.
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.
38
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
Consumerism is running more amok than ever, but this satire of it isn't.
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.
30
Village Voice
Amy Taubin
Begins on a note of total migraine-inducing hysteria, which continues unabated throughout.
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.
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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