Breakfast of Champions
1999 · Movie · R · 110 min · ★ 5.0 · 34% critics
A successful small-city businessman who seems to have it all suddenly realizes his life is unraveling. As personal pressures, odd encounters, and a growing sense of instability pile up, this dark satire follows a chaotic midlife crisis that turns stranger and more unsettled by the day.
Based on Breakfast of Champions
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Details
- Years
- 1999
- Release date
- 1999-02-18
- Language
- English
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 110 min
- Max quality
- UHD
- Critic score
- 34/100
- TMDB rating
- 5.0/10 (120 votes)
About
You may click with this if you like offbeat, dark satires that embrace chaos and discomfort, especially in the vein of The Bonfire of the Vanities; Not for you if disjointed storytelling and abrasive weirdness wear you out.
Pros: darkly funny moments; committed cast; bold satirical streak | Cons: messy storytelling; hard to follow; wildly uneven tone
Themes
- indiana, usa
- husband wife relationship
- based on novel or book
- success
- car salesman
- author
- extramarital affair
Cast & crew
Bruce Willis
as Dwayne Hoover
Albert Finney
as Kilgore Trout
Nick Nolte
as Harry Le Sabre
Barbara Hershey
as Celia Hoover
Glenne Headly
as Francine Pefko
Lukas Haas
as George 'Bunny' Hoover
Omar Epps
as Wayne Hoobler
Vicki Lewis
as Grace Le Sabre
Buck Henry
as Fred T. Barry
Ken Hudson Campbell
as Eliot Rosewater / Gilbert
Directed by Alan Rudolph