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| BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS (1998)
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ReviewScore: 40 out of 100
SBD Star Rating:
by Lew Irwin
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Breakfast of Champions will clearly not satisfy everyone's tastes. Stephen Holden in the New York Times pays the film such left-handed compliments as: "You have to admire [director Allan] Rudolph for making a film this defiantly uncommercial." And: "In many ways, Breakfast of Champions is an incoherent mess. But it never compromises its zany vision of the country." Kevin Thomas in the Los Angeles Times says that while the cast, including Bruce Willis, Albert Finney, Nick Nolte and Barbara Hershey, "dazzles," the movie itself "never comes fully alive until its climactic 20 minutes. ... That's a lot to ask of audiences, but those who value the big attempt over the easy success ... may well feel rewarded for their patience." Several reviewers take the position that Jack Mathews does in his review in the New York Daily News. The Kurt Vonnegut novel, he writes, "simply proves itself unadaptable" to the screen. |
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