Breakfast of Champions 1999 123movies

Watch: Breakfast of Champions 1999 123movies, Full Movie Online – A portrait of a fictional town in the midwest that is home to a group of idiosyncratic and slightly neurotic characters. Dwayne Hoover is a wealthy car dealership owner that’s on the brink of suicide, and is losing touch with reality..
Plot: An unhappy car dealer believes that a dime-store philosopher has the answers to life’s important questions.
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Ratings:

	4.5/10 Votes: 8,017
	25% | RottenTomatoes
	42/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 85 Popularity: 6.711 | TMDB

Reviews:

A disappointed fan of the book
After a recent Vonnegut reading binge I was eager to see Breakfast of Champions when I saw it on the video shelf. A great cast, a director (Aland Rudolph) who has made several films I’ve enjoyed (Choose Me, The Moderns, Trouble in Mind). Sadly, BofC is quite a disappointment.

Two things really stick out for me. Although Bruce Willis was quite good as Dwayne Hoover, too many of the other characters, notably Harry LeSabre (Nick Nolte) and Wayne Hoobler (Omar Epps) are portrayed in frenetic over the top performances. OK…we get it that there are all sorts of crazies running amuck in Midland City, but the point Vonnegut was making in his novel was that this madness is displayed in the “normal” everyday way that we live our lives in America. The values (consumerism, greed, violence) and actions that are considered normal in the United States are themselves proof that we are all suffering from a form of madness…showing these fine actors jumping around and uttering indecipherable gibberish shows only that they are annoying.

The film also has a problem in creating a consistent point of view. In the novel the author guides us through Dwayne Hoovers’ unfolding madness and is actually a character in the book. The movie can’t give us the background information the books’ narrator did and I would guess that anyone who hasn’t read the book will find the movie tough going…perhaps downright incomprehensible.

Lastly, as a great fan of Kilgore Trout (Vonnegut fans know him as a character who pops up in several Vonnegut novels) I thought Albert Finney did quite a nice job; he had just the right air of unkempt, curmudgeonly, insane genius that makes Trout my favorite Vonnegut character of all time. Still, it’s hardly enough to save this mess…I admire the effort in bringing Breakfast of Champions to the screen, but in the end it’s likely that this is an unfilmable novel.

Far away from mainstream, strange humor + philosophical
This film doesn’t have the slightest chance with ordinary mainstream-loving people, for it is too different. It has a very strange, not to say tasteless humor, a kind where one first has to think at least twice (or even more often) before laughing. Too, it has nothing to do with action (as the typical Bruce-Willis-fan might look for).

Instead, this is a very good parody of everyday life; of people with their own little madness, of people constantly thinking about if others might like them, if others see their faults. And of conversations where each talks about something totally different than the other, never noticing that their messages pass wide from their marks. And it is a film about how to live in this strange world, what is the way to survive here, what can we do to make it livable. These are only some aspects which can be found in this movie.

I’ve to state that I’ve never watched a movie where so many people left. And I really understand that; I thought about leaving this the first time I saw it, too. But I recognized that most people which stayed where female; they had a better sense for the message of this movie, I guess. And, after seeing it three times, I finally want to state it is a very, very good movie, intelligent and humorous, if and only if you are able to open your mind and try to understand what it is talking about. I would like to see more such movies, which gives you something to think about.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 50 min (110 min)
Budget 12000000
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Comedy
Director Alan Rudolph
Writer Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Alan Rudolph
Actors Bruce Willis, Nick Nolte, Albert Finney
Country United States
Awards 1 nomination
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm