Breakfast of Champions (1999) 4K Restoration
Director: Alan Rudolph Run Time: 110 min. Rating: R Release Year: 1999
Starring: Albert Finney, Barbara Hershey, Bruce Willis, Glenne Headly, Nick Nolte
Country: United States
Language: English
About the film:
25th Anniversary Screenings, World Premiere 1999 Berlin International Film Festival. Based on the bestselling 1973 novel of the same name, also Goodbye Blue Monday, by Kurt Vonnegut. Twenty-five years after its initial release, Kurt Vonnegut’s biting portrayal of America’s mad chaos returns in a restored 4K version. Directed by the revered Alan Rudolph and starring Bruce Willis, Nick Nolte, Albert Finney, and Barbara Hershey, there’s no better time to rediscover this zany and incisive film.
Dwayne Hoover is a famous car dealer and the most respected man in Midland City. The American success formula has left Dwayne rich and famous, but also empty and suicidal. He suspects dark motives emanating from his wife, his sales manager, and his lover/secretary. When Dwayne has a volatile, astonishing encounter with outrageous science fiction writer Kilgore Trout at the Midland City Fine Arts Festival, neither they nor the city is ever the same.
“a once-maligned comic treasure that feels more prescient and relevant than ever”
—Jim Hemphill for Indiewire
About the filmmaker:
Alan Rudolph is an American film director and screenwriter best known for Choose Me (1984), Trouble in Mind (1985), The Moderns (1988), among many others. He was a protégé of director Robert Altman, working as an assistant director on Altman’s film adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s The Long Goodbye (1973) and later on Nashville (1975).
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