Breakfast of Champions (film)
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| Directed by | Alan Rudolph |
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| Written by | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 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, who also starred in the 1996 adaptation of Vonnegut's novel Mother Night plays Dwayne's cross-dressing business associate Harry LeSabre. Omar Epps is cast as Wayne Hoobler, a black jailbird working on Dwayne's lot. Lukas Haas makes a cameo as Bunny, Dwayne's homosexual son, who plays piano in the lounge at the Holiday Inn, which has been changed to the Ameri-tel inn in the film to avoid lawsuits.
External links
Short 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, An Autobiographical Collage (1981) |
Fates Worse than Death, An Autobiographical Collage (1990) |
God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian (2001) |
A Man Without a Country (2005)
Plays —
Happy Birthday, Wanda June (1970) |
Between Time and Timbuktu, or Prometheus Five: A Space Fantasy (1972) |
Make Up Your Mind (1993) |
Miss Temptation (1993) |
L'Histoire du Soldat (1993)
Adaptations
Film —
Happy Birthday, Wanda June (1971) |
Slaughterhouse-Five (1972) |
Next Door (1975) |
Slapstick of Another Kind (1982) |
Mother Night (1996) |
Breakfast of Champions (1999)
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)
Television — Displaced Person (1958, 1985) | 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)
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