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Breakfast of champions
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Movie propaganda
Until you're dead, it's all life...
In a small rural town, Dwayne Hoover (Bruce Willis) is a car salesman who loves the books of author Kilgore Trout (Albert Finney), but perhaps a little too much. You see, he believes everything that Trout has written, and Trout's written a lot of pretty out-there stuff. That Hoover is mentally fragile and teetering on the brink doesn't help matters much.
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Target demographic movie keyword propaganda
- Film black comedy mental
Persons of interest
- 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
- Jake Johannsen .... Bill Bailey
- Will Patton .... Moe the Truck Driver
- Chip Zien .... Andy Wojeckowzski
- Owen Wilson .... Monte Rapid
- Alison Eastwood .... Maria Maritimo
- Shawnee Smith .... Bonnie MacMahon
- Michael Jai White .... Howell
- Kurt Vonnegut Junior .... Author
- Alan Rudolph .... Screenwriter
- Alan Rudolph .... Director
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Theatrical report
Mmmm...
I haven't read the book but it's obviously a masterpiece of interconnected insanity that knocks your brain out of whack and opens your mind to an altered reality. The film version captures a sense of the ridiculous but it runs into Hollywood and never quite recovers.
Everyone over-acts. This is Alan Rudolph's fault. As mentioned in another review (can you find it?!) the insane must be indistinguishable from the sane in the new millennium. Babbling psychotics were fine for the 70s and even hip in the 80s but it's time to wake up and smell the cappuccino. Everyone has seen enough insane people in politics and on Entertainment tonight to mistake babbling for the real thing.
The story flows like molasses (ie not very quickly) and has an unfortunately happy ending. The whole point of being insane is that you can't appreciate what you've got and what you've lost. You have to become sane to reach this level of understanding. No-one does.
Security censorship classification
M (Adult themes, medium level sex scene, low level coarse language)
Surveillance time
106 minutes (1:46 hours)
Not for public release in Australia before date
VHS rental: 4 July 2000
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