Breakfast of Champions

Play trailer

Breakfast of Champions

R

1999

1h 50m

Comedy

Drama

Play Trailer

Watchlist

Watchlist

Tomatometer

Popcornmeter

27%

Tomatometer

44 Reviews

32%

Popcornmeter

5,000+ Ratings

An unhappy car dealer (Bruce Willis) believes that a dime-store author/philosopher (Albert Finney) has the answers to life's important questions.

Watch on Fandango

Stream Now

Critics Consensus

The movie is overwhelmed by its chaotic visual effects and disjointed storyline.

Read Critics Reviews

Richard Brody

The New Yorker

Feb 19, 2025

Rudolph lets his directorial vision loose here, a giddy cinematic id that displays more imagination and more daring in every cathode tube and every street sign, every growl and every rant, than most Hollywood movies have in their whole run time.

Go to Full Review

Edward Lawrenson

Sight & Sound

Jun 18, 2012

Structurally, the film is a mess: on screen, the novel's digressive, anecdotal narrative seems directionless and muddled.

Go to Full Review

Jay Carr

Boston Globe

Jan 1, 2000

A misfire.

Go to Full Review

Eddie Harrison

film-authority.com

Nov 13, 2024

4/5

…a serious attempt to distil Kurt Vonnegut’s big ideas in a cinematic way, with top talent rising to depict a dystopian present that’s now the dystopian long-gone past…

Go to Full Review

Kevin Carr

Fat Guys at the Movies

Feb 6, 2021

1/4

There's an amazingness to this train wreck... It makes every mistake you could possibly make in adapting a Kurt Vonnegut book.

Go to Full Review

Philip Martin

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Nov 7, 2005

3/5

Read all reviews

thiago S

@Thiagostone May 22, 2026

Filme fraco, o roteiro é fraco, as cenas são fracas, a história é fraca, o elenco é fraco, e ninguém ajuda a melhorar o filme, os personagens são fracos, e o filme deveria ter cenas bem melhores e relevantes, para fazer o filme ser bom

See more

Derek B

@RT09342511 Mar 20, 2026

Nick Nolte in a dress makes this worth every minute.

See more

Allan F

@Allan644 Dec 27, 2025

Perfectly absurd as Vonnegut’s absurdity.

See more

SCHA I

@RT02042596 May 21, 2025

I love the absurdity of Kurt Vonnegut. This film does its best to live up to that absurdity.

See more

Blu B

@RT43513976 Jul 19, 2024

Been a long time since I just checked out of a film midway like I did here. I think this is about Dwayne Hoover is a used car salesman in a Tim Burton/Sam Raimi crazy like world and stuff just happens. Bizarre, makes no sense, the writers were on acid type stuff happens. How they got an all star cast with the likes of Albert Finney and Hershey is just insane. I guess some poistives...well the music isn't good with the damn bongos and other boring gneric stuff but at least it's not horrifc. The editing is reall bad but I guess it could be worse. I still don't understand what Finney's characters role was and the stepping into a mirror world at the end. I feel like if you cut him completely I would be just as lost but it would only feel like I lost 90 minutes of my life versus 2 hours. But it felt like 3.5 hours I was here. Everything else is just offensively mind boggling bad. I think it's trying to go for a Terry Gilliam style Fear & Loathing but fails miserable. How this didn't kill the careers of every single person involved is a small miracle that stands with the immaculate reception for the Steelers, and Reagan suriving his assassination attempt. I'm just done. Skip This.

See more

Honest D

@RT10468612 Nov 11, 2023

Reading the Kurt Vonnegut book that this unfortunate movie is based on might change your life, but this movie is a big old mess. It could have been so much more. Its kind of sad really.

See more

Read all reviews

Read More

Read Less

WRITE A REVIEW

EDIT REVIEW

POST RATING

Alan Rudolph

Director

Bruce Willis

Dwayne Hoover

Albert Finney

Kilgore Trout

Nick Nolte

Harry Le Sabre

Barbara Hershey

Celia Hoover

Glenne Headly

Francine Pefko

Lies & Alibis

57%

53%

Lies & Alibis

Watchlist

The Annihilation of Fish

76%

99%

The Annihilation of Fish

Watchlist

TRAILER

for The Annihilation of Fish

Outside Providence

51%

66%

Outside Providence

Watchlist

Pecker

53%

64%

Pecker

Watchlist

Bulworth

80%

68%

Bulworth

Watchlist

TRAILER

for Bulworth

Discover more movies and TV shows.

View More

View more photos

Synopsis

An unhappy car dealer (Bruce Willis) believes that a dime-store author/philosopher (Albert Finney) has the answers to life's important questions.

Director: Alan Rudolph
Producer: David Blocker, W. Mark McNair, David Willis
Screenwriter: Kurt Vonnegut
Distributor: Argentina Video Home, Tobis Filmkunst, Walt Disney Company Ltd. [gb], Mikado, Buena Vista Pictures, Budapest Film Rt., West Video, Ecovideo [pt], Les Films de l'Astre, Warner Bros.
Production Co: Sugar Creek Productions, Rain City, Summit Entertainment, Flying Heart Films, Rational Packaging Company
Rating: R
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 17, 1999, Wide
Box Office (Gross USA): $175.4K
Runtime: 1h 50m
Sound Mix: Surround, Dolby Digital

Join The Newsletter

Join The Newsletter

Cookie Settings