Breakfast of Champions

Name: Breakfast of Champions
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Released: 1999-02-18
Duration: 1 h 50 min
Rating: 4.8
Cast: Bruce Willis, Albert Finney, Nick Nolte, Barbara Hershey, Glenne Headly

In a world gone mad, you can trust Dwayne Hoover.

Breakfast of Champions (1999)

Timing: 1:50 (110 min)

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Release date

1999-02-18

Country

United States

Production

Summit Entertainment, Hollywood Pictures, Flying Heart Films

Genre

Comedy, Drama

Budget

$12 000 000

Box office

$178 278

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Director

Alan Rudolph

Actors

Bruce Willis, Albert Finney, Nick Nolte, Barbara Hershey, Glenne Headly, Lukas Haas, Omar Epps, Vicki Lewis, Buck Henry, Ken Hudson Campbell
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Scenario

Producer

David Willis, David Blocker, W. Mark McNair

Camera operator

Elliot Davis

Composer

Mark Isham

Artist

Nina Ruscio

Audition

Pam Dixon

Editing

Suzy Elmiger
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Short description

A millionaire car salesman who runs the biggest dealership in Midland City, Dwayne Hoover is a celebrity, loved and trusted by everyone. Then one day, he wakes up and realizes that his life is a total mess! But between the headaches posed by his pill-popping wife, a mistress who won't leave him alone, and a cross-dressing sales manager, Dwayne has picked a bad week for a midlife crisis.

What's left behind the scenes

In the Rozwater office, among the paintings on the wall, one can notice a self-portrait of Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (the author of the book).
Riding the wave of the box office success of Robert Altman’s musical comedy “Nashville” (1975), producer Dino De Laurentiis bought the rights to adapt Kurt Vonnegut Jr.’s novel for Altman. Altman invited Peter Falk to play Dwayne Hoover, Alice Cooper to play his son Bunny, Sterling Hayden to play Kilgore Trout, and Ruth Gordon to play Eliot Rosewater (considering Rosewater’s age, Altman decided a woman could play the role as well). However, when Altman’s film “Buffalo Bill and the Indians” (1976), which De Laurentiis produced, flopped, all these plans fell through, and a different crew for the “Breakfast of Champions” project cast different actors.
In Rozwater's office, a self-portrait of Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (the author of the book) can be seen among the paintings on the wall.
On the wave of the box office success of Robert Altman's musical comedy Nashville (1975), producer Dino De Laurentiis bought the film rights to Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s novel for Altman. Altman invited Peter Falk for the role of Dwayne Hoover, Alice Cooper for the role of his son Bunny, Sterling Hayden for the role of Kilgore Trout, and Ruth Gordon for the role of Eliot Rozwater (given Rozwater's age, Altman decided a woman could play him). However, when Altman's film Buffalo Bill and the Indians (1976), which De Laurentiis produced, failed, all these plans fell through, and a different cast was recruited for the Breakfast of Champions project by another production team.