Breakfast of Champions
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.
Alan Rudolph
Casts & Crew
Bruce Willis
Albert Finney
Nick Nolte
Barbara Hershey
Glenne Headly
Lukas Haas
Will Patton
Michael Jai White
Shawnee Smith
Vicki Lewis
Buck Henry
Owen Wilson
Alison Eastwood
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Tom Robbins
Tisha Sterling
Also Directed by Alan Rudolph
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