"Vonnegut's
use of deep, dark satire as social commentary was so prophetic to me that
I have always wanted to make this movie," says independent cinema pioneer
Alan Rudolph (Afterglow, 1997) of his 20-year fascination with cult author
Kurt Vonnegut's (Slaughterhouse 5) novel Breakfast of Champions. Rudolph's
adaptation wickedly trashes asinine American consumer society. Casting
action hero Bruce Willis as car dealer in crisis Hoover and tough guy
Nick Nolte as a red lace lingerie aficionado was a brilliant coup. Hoover's
life, dictated by infidelity, perpetually grinning on local TV, and a
pill-addicted wife (Barabara Hershey) and son with a weakness for furry
slippers, only needs the arrival of third-rate science fiction author
Kilgore Trout (Albert Finney) - a guru in Hoover's mind - to let the madness
explode.
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