Information about Breakfast Of Champions (film)
This article is about the movie. For the novel, see Breakfast of Champions.
| Breakfast of Champions | |
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| Directed by | Alan Rudolph |
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| Written by | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (novel) Alan Rudolph (screenplay) |
| Starring | Bruce Willis Albert Finney Nick Nolte |
| Runtime | 110 min. |
| Language | English |
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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 Donald Farber in which the two, among jokes, disparage this loose film adaptation of the book as "painful to watch." [1]References
External links
- Breakfast of Champions Film Reviews at RottenTomatoes.com
| Novels | 1950s: Player Piano (1952) • The Sirens of Titan (1959) 1960s: Mother Night (1961) • Cat's Cradle (1963) • God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1965) • Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) 1970s: Breakfast of Champions (1973) • Slapstick (1976) • Jailbird (1979) 1980s: Deadeye Dick (1982) • Galpagos (1985) • Bluebeard (1987) 1990s: Hocus Pocus (1990) • Timequake (1997) |
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| Story collections | Canary in a Cathouse (1961) • Welcome to the Monkey House (1968) • Bagombo Snuff Box (1999) |
| Collected essays | Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons (1974) • Palm Sunday (1981) • Fates Worse than Death (1990) • God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian (1999) • A Man Without a Country (2005) |
| Scripts | Happy Birthday, Wanda June (1970) • Between Time and Timbuktu (1972) • Make Up Your Mind (1993) • Miss Temptation (1993) • L'Histoire du Soldat (1993) |
| Adaptations | |
| Stage | Welcome to the Monkey House (1970, 1974) • Sirens of Titan (1974) • Cat's Cradle (1976) • God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1979) • Breakfast of Champions (1984) • Requiem (Stone, Time, and Elements: A Humanist Requiem) (1988) • Slaughterhouse-Five (1996) |
| Film | Happy Birthday, Wanda June (1971) • Slaughterhouse-Five (1972) • Next Door (1975) • Slapstick of Another Kind (1982) • Mother Night (1996) • Breakfast of Champions (1999) |
| Television | Displaced Person (1958, 1985) • Between Time and Timbuktu (1972) • EPICAC (1974, 1992) • Who Am I This Time? (1982) • All the King's Horses (1991) • Next Door (1991) • The Euphio Question (1991) • Fortitude (1992) • The Foster Portfolio (1992) • More Stately Mansions (1992) • Harrison Bergeron (1995) |
Breakfast of Champions
Cover of first edition (hardcover)
Author Kurt Vonnegut
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Novel
Publisher Delacorte Press
Publication date 1973
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Cover of first edition (hardcover)
Author Kurt Vonnegut
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Novel
Publisher Delacorte Press
Publication date 1973
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Alan Steven Rudolph (born 18 December 1943) is an American film director and screenwriter.
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Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut Jr
Born: November 11 1922
Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.
Died: March 11 2007 (aged 86)
New York, New York, U.S.
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Kurt Vonnegut Jr
Born: November 11 1922
Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.
Died: March 11 2007 (aged 86)
New York, New York, U.S.
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Alan Steven Rudolph (born 18 December 1943) is an American film director and screenwriter.
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Bruce Willis
Willis at German premiere of Over the Hedge on June 28 2006.
Birth name Walter Bruce Willis
Born March 19 1955
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Willis at German premiere of Over the Hedge on June 28 2006.
Birth name Walter Bruce Willis
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Albert Finney Jr.
Born May 9 1936
Salford, Greater Manchester, England, UK
Spouse(s) Jane Wenham (1957-1961)
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Born May 9 1936
Salford, Greater Manchester, England, UK
Spouse(s) Jane Wenham (1957-1961)
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Nick Nolte
Nick Nolte at the Cannes Film Festival
Birth name Nicholas King Nolte
Born January 8 1941
Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.
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Nick Nolte at the Cannes Film Festival
Birth name Nicholas King Nolte
Born January 8 1941
Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.
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Alan Steven Rudolph (born 18 December 1943) is an American film director and screenwriter.
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Rudolph was born in Los Angeles, the son of Oscar Rudolph (1911–1991), a television director and actor...... Click the link for more information.
Breakfast of Champions
Cover of first edition (hardcover)
Author Kurt Vonnegut
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Novel
Publisher Delacorte Press
Publication date 1973
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Cover of first edition (hardcover)
Author Kurt Vonnegut
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Novel
Publisher Delacorte Press
Publication date 1973
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Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut Jr
Born: November 11 1922
Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.
Died: March 11 2007 (aged 86)
New York, New York, U.S.
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Kurt Vonnegut Jr
Born: November 11 1922
Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.
Died: March 11 2007 (aged 86)
New York, New York, U.S.
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Bruce Willis
Willis at German premiere of Over the Hedge on June 28 2006.
Birth name Walter Bruce Willis
Born March 19 1955
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Willis at German premiere of Over the Hedge on June 28 2006.
Birth name Walter Bruce Willis
Born March 19 1955
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Albert Finney Jr.
Born May 9 1936
Salford, Greater Manchester, England, UK
Spouse(s) Jane Wenham (1957-1961)
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Born May 9 1936
Salford, Greater Manchester, England, UK
Spouse(s) Jane Wenham (1957-1961)
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Kilgore Trout is a fictional character created by author Kurt Vonnegut. Although it is said that he is a fictionalization of the real author Theodore Sturgeon, Vonnegut called Kilgore his "alter ego" and "somebody he used to be.
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Nick Nolte
Nick Nolte at the Cannes Film Festival
Birth name Nicholas King Nolte
Born January 8 1941
Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.
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Nick Nolte at the Cannes Film Festival
Birth name Nicholas King Nolte
Born January 8 1941
Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.
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Omar Epps
Birth name Omar Hashim Epps
Born July 23 1973
Brooklyn, New York
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Birth name Omar Hashim Epps
Born July 23 1973
Brooklyn, New York
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Lukas Haas
Haas at the Tribeca Film Festival
Birth name Lucas Daniel Haas
Born March 16 1976
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Haas at the Tribeca Film Festival
Birth name Lucas Daniel Haas
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Holiday Inn is a brand name applied to hotels within the InterContinental Hotels Group.
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Twin Falls, Idaho
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Seal
Motto: People Serving People
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State Idaho
County Twin Falls
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State of Idaho
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Nickname(s): Gem State, Spud State
Motto(s): Esto perpetua
Official language(s) English [1]
Capital Boise
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Nickname(s): Gem State, Spud State
Motto(s): Esto perpetua
Official language(s) English [1]
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Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut Jr
Born: November 11 1922
Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.
Died: March 11 2007 (aged 86)
New York, New York, U.S.
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Kurt Vonnegut Jr
Born: November 11 1922
Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.
Died: March 11 2007 (aged 86)
New York, New York, U.S.
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Breakfast of Champions
Cover of first edition (hardcover)
Author Kurt Vonnegut
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Novel
Publisher Delacorte Press
Publication date 1973
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Cover of first edition (hardcover)
Author Kurt Vonnegut
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Novel
Publisher Delacorte Press
Publication date 1973
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Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut Jr
Born: November 11 1922
Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.
Died: March 11 2007 (aged 86)
New York, New York, U.S.
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Kurt Vonnegut Jr
Born: November 11 1922
Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.
Died: March 11 2007 (aged 86)
New York, New York, U.S.
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player piano is a piano containing a pneumatic mechanism that plays on the piano action pre-programmed music via perforated paper rolls. The true player piano was designed to be a fully interactive musical experience rather than merely an automatic instrument and hence they are
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Mother Night
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Author Kurt Vonnegut
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Novel
Publisher Fawcett Publications/Gold Medal Books
Publication date 1961
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Author Kurt Vonnegut
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Novel
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Publication date 1961
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Cat's cradle is a well known series of string figures. The name of the entire game, the specific figures, their order, and the names of the figures vary. Versions of this game have been found in indigenous cultures all over the world--from the Arctic to the Equatorial zones.
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God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
Cover of first edition (Hardcover)
Author Kurt Vonnegut
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Novel
Publisher Dell
Publication date 1965
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Cover of first edition (Hardcover)
Author Kurt Vonnegut
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Novel
Publisher Dell
Publication date 1965
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Slaughterhouse-Five
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Author Kurt Vonnegut
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Philosophical, War novel, Dark comedy
Publisher Delacorte Press
Publication date 1969
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First edition cover
Author Kurt Vonnegut
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Philosophical, War novel, Dark comedy
Publisher Delacorte Press
Publication date 1969
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