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Overview

User Rating:
4.2/10   4,687 votes
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Director:
Alan Rudolph
Writers (WGA):
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (book)
Alan Rudolph (screenplay)
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Release Date:
18 February 1999 (Germany) more
Genre:
Comedy more
Tagline:
In a world gone mad, you can trust Dwayne Hoover.
Plot:
A portrait of a fictional town in the mid west that is home to a group of idiosyncratic and slightly neurotic characters... more | add synopsis
Awards:
1 nomination more
NewsDesk:
Breakfast Of Champions
 (From HollyScoop. 5 December 2008, 8:26 AM, PST)

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Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Bruce Willis ... Dwayne Hoover

Albert Finney ... Kilgore Trout

Nick Nolte ... Harry Le Sabre

Barbara Hershey ... Celia Hoover

Glenne Headly ... Francine Pefko

Lukas Haas ... George 'Bunny' Hoover
Omar Epps ... Wayne Hoobler

Vicki Lewis ... Grace Le Sabre
Buck Henry ... Fred T. Barry

Ken Hudson Campbell ... Eliot Rosewater / Gilbert (as Ken Campbell)
Jake Johannsen ... Bill Bailey
Will Patton ... Moe the Truck Driver

Chip Zien ... Andy Wojeckowzski

Owen Wilson ... Monte Rapid

Alison Eastwood ... Maria Maritimo
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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated R for sexuality and some language.
Runtime:
110 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital
Filming Locations:
Twin Falls, Idaho, USA

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Trivia:
The lit circular arrow sign for "Exit 11 Motor Village" now lives on the north side of Barton's 93 casino in Jackpot Nevada. The picture of Bruce Willis has been replaced with the 93 logo. more
Quotes:
Dwayne Hoover: It's all life until your dead. more
Movie Connections:
Follows Slaughterhouse-Five (1972) more
Soundtrack:
Coronation more

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5 out of 5 people found the following comment useful:-
terminus, 14 April 2004
Author: sunsix from glendale,CO

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.

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