Breakfast of Champions - breakfast for heroes
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Breakfast of Champions - breakfast for heroes |
| Original title | Breakfast of Champions |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1999 |
| length | 106 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Alan Rudolph |
| script | Alan Rudolph |
| production |
David Blocker David Willis |
| music | Mark Isham |
| camera | Elliot Davis |
| cut | Suzy Elmiger |
| occupation | |
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Breakfast of Champions is an American fictional film directed by Alan Rudolph from 1999. The plot of the comedy film is based on the 1973 novel by Kurt Vonnegut of the same name .
action
Car salesman Dwayne Hoover's wife, Celia Hoover, is a drug addict. He met the writer Kilgore Trout, from whom he hoped to get the answer to the question about the meaning of existence.
Car dealership manager Harry Le Saber has women's clothing fetishized and fears Dwayne might find out. Hoover has problems with the authorities accusing him of environmental crimes.
background
The film was shot in Idaho in 1998. Its production cost an estimated 12 million US dollars , the box office in the US cinemas amounted to 175,000 US dollars.
Reviews
James Berardinelli wrote on ReelViews that the novels of Kurt Vonnegut were difficult to film, which also applies to the novel of this film. The screenwriter and director Alan Rudolph understood the subject matter of the novel, but did not manage to convey it to the audience. The representations are not bad, but the characters are shown flat. Berardinelli particularly praised the portrayals of Bruce Willis and Nick Nolte.
"An exquisitely played, but at most pointedly staged satire about the impending loss of reality in a world of (images) images and signals that does not have the courage to deepen the topic and silts up in striking, exaggerated individual scenes."
Awards
Alan Rudolph was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 1999 Berlinale .
literature
- Kurt Vonnegut : Breakfast of champions. Roman - Breakfast for Heroes (Original title: Breakfast of Champions or Goodbye Blue Monday ). With drawings by the author. German by Kurt Heinrich Hansen . Goldmann, Munich 1999, 301 pages, ISBN 3-442-44516-7 .
Web links
- Breakfast of Champions - Breakfast for heroes in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Breakfast of Champions - Breakfast for heroes at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Breakfast of Champions - Breakfast for Heroes at Metacritic (English)
- Breakfast of Champions - Breakfast for Heroes in the online film database
- Breakfast of Champions - Breakfast for Heroes ( Memento from April 30, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) in the Dirk Jasper FilmLexikon
Individual evidence
- ↑ Business Data for Breakfast of Champions
- ^ Review by James Berardinelli
- ↑ Breakfast of Champions - breakfast for heroes. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .