Breakfast Of Champions Page #2

Synopsis: A portrait of a fictional town in the mid west that is home to a group of idiosyncratic and slightly neurotic characters. Dwayne Hoover is a wealthy car dealer-ship owner that's on the brink of suicide and is losing touch with reality.
Genre: Comedy
Director(s): Alan Rudolph
Production: Buena Vista Pictures
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
4.6
Metacritic:
42
Rotten Tomatoes:
26%
R
Year:
1999
110 min
191 Views


I bought my new car down

at Exit 11 Motor Village.

- where am I?

- Oh, Sugar Creek Estates.

- What is happening here?

- Don't worry. Somebody just dumping sludge in the creek.

But the guys are gettin'it cleaned up.

You can go on through if you want to, but

keep it kind of slow for me, will ya, please?

- Be nice and safe. - Hey! You can't

go there! I got your license plate!

That was Mr. Hoover from Exit 11.

Oh, I should have got his autograph.

Doggone it. My wife's never

gonna believe that I did this.

- what's that?

- Another special delivery.

Two in one week. You ain't

dead yet, old man. Here you go.

Dear Mr. Trout, My

name is Fred T. Barry,

chairman of the arts festival, celebrating

the opening of the Mildred T. Barry...

Memorial Center for the

Arts in Midland City.

It would be our most profound honor...

for you to be one of our

creative and distinguished...

out-of-town

participants.

This check for dollar1,000

is for travel expenses...

and an honorarium.

- why all this sudden interest

in Kilgore Trout, Bill, huh?

Some mistake's been made. No question.

Maybe they've invited me because

they know I've got a tuxedo.

Ever show you my

tuxedo, Bill, huh? Yeah.

If they really want Kilgore Trout,

they'll want him in a tuxedo.

Ah. Yeah.

High school dance.

Believe it or not, once

even I was young, Bill.

Me. Hey.

Yeah, it's quite a good fit, huh?

Hey, Bill, what is that?

Cha, cha, cha

Cha, cha-

I'm too old for all that.

why go all the way out to Midland City

just to make a laughingstock of myself?

I'm my only fan.

Anyway, if I went out

there, I'd want to read...

out loud from my own stuff.

Means I'd have to go to those

wide-open beaver bookshops...

and dig out some of my published work.

They don't want nothin'

but smilers out there.

Unhappy failures need not apply.

Maybe unhappy failures is

exactly what they should see.

Show those provincials what nobody's

ever seen before at an arts festival.

Someone who's devoted his entire

life searching for truth and beauty...

and didn't find doodley-squat.

The creator who's failed

and failed and failed.

Think there's anybody in Midland City

who'd listen to a cockroach like that, Bill?

Anybody at all, huh?

Maybe it's my missin, Bill.

Think it could be my missin?

Dwayne?

Yeah.

Happy, happy birthday

From your staff all who

we wish you happy birthday

So we could party too Hey!

See? See, Francine?

What'd I tell you?

Something's come over him.

- I've never seen this Dwayne before.

- Oh, Harry.

Dwayne may be the most charming man in

Midland City, but he's also very shy.

I don't find him so charming anymore.

He was walking away from me just now.

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Alan Rudolph

Alan Steven Rudolph (born December 18, 1943) is an American film director and screenwriter. more…

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