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Breakfast of Champions

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

1999 · 1h 50m · R Comedy, Drama
Directed by Alan Rudolph

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Overview

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.

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Breakfast of Champions is a spectacular failure.

Michael Atkinson, Mr. Showbiz
Rotten

Another middle-aged male-crisis opus, it begins on a note of total migraine-inducing hysteria, which continues unabated throughout.

Amy Taubin, Village Voice
Rotten

Unwatchable!

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
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The movie looks and feels like a frantic, live-action psychedelic cartoon.

Stephen Holden, New York Times
Rotten

A long series of misfires in writing and acting.

Stanley Kauffmann, The New Republic

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